The Eight: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780345366238 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1990 / 624 str.

Katherine Neville

Opis

Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....

Recenzje

Readers thrilled by The Da Vinci Code will relish the multi-layered secrets of The Eight.
MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club

A BIG, RICH, TWO-TIERED CONFECTION OF A NOVEL . . .
A ROUSING, AMUSING GAME.
San Francisco Chronicle

A fascinating piece of entertainment that manages to be both vibrant and cerebral . . . Few will find it resistible.
Los Angeles Times Book Review

With alchemical skill, Neville blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery . . . and comes up with gold.
People

O autorze

Katherine Neville is the author of The Eight, The Magic Circle (a USA Today bestseller), and A Calculated Risk (a New York Times Notable Book). The Eight has been translated into more than thirty languages. In a national poll in Spain by the noted journal El País, The Eight was voted one of the top ten books of all time. Neville lives in Virginia and Washington, D.C.