Book Description
Before computer expert Cat Velis can leave for her new job in Algeria, a mysterious fortune-teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for the pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years. Created in the south of France in 1790, the chess set is rumored to contain the secrets behind alchemy, freemasonry, and cosmic forces. But long ago two convent girls hid the valuable chess pieces all over the world because the game played with all of the pieces is dangerously powerful.
About the Author
Katherine Neville is the author of Calculated Risk and Magic Circle.
El Ocho FROM THE PUBLISHER
Entre los días de la Revolución francesa, cuando Robespierre desató el Terror en París, y la Argelia revolucionaria de los años 70, en vísperas de la creación de la OPEP, Katherine Neville desarrolla con mano maestra dos líneas argumentales paralelas que terminarán convergiendo en un desenlace asombroso y totalmente inesperado. El ocho, una de las novelas de intriga más originales de la última década, ha sido traducida ya a diecisiete idiomas.
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