- Paperback
624 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2009
Summary
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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780345366238 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0345366239 |
| Author: | Katherine Neville |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Ballantine Books Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 624 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 107mm x 170mm |
| Series: | Ballantine Books |
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Critics Review
“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
Katherine Neville
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.
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