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  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780345366238
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $17.99
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The Eight




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....

  • Published: 15 June 2009
  • ISBN: 9780345366238
  • Imprint: Ballantine
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 624
  • RRP: $17.99
Categories:

About the author

Katherine Neville

Katherine Neville was for twenty years an international consultant and computer executive in energy and finance. She numbered among her employers and clients IBM, the Algerian government, the US Department of Energy, OPEC, The New York Stock Exchange and the Bank of America. She completed her post graduate studies in African literature, and was for some years a commercial photographer, professional model and painter. She has worked in seven countries and in more than twenty states of the United States. She draws on her diverse experiences to enrich her novels. Ms. Neville's first novel, The Eight, has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She lives in Virginia and Washington DC. Visit the author's website at www.katherineneville.com

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