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FIRE, THE by Katherine Neville - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKSee all titles by Katherine Neville.Katherine Neville’s groundbreaking novel, The Eight, dazzled audiences
more than twenty years ago and set the literary stage for the epic
thriller. A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to
Charlemagne, it spans two centuries and three continents, and
intertwines historic and modern plots, archaeological treasure hunts,
esoteric riddles, and puzzles encrypted with clues from the ancient
past. Now the electrifying global adventure continues, in Neville’s
long anticipated sequel: THE FIRE
2003, Colorado: Alexandra
Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain
hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat
Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the
pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the
secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra
arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of
strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival
of a mysterious assortment of houseguests, indicates that something
sinister is afoot.
When she inadvertently discovers from her
aunt, the chess grandmaster Lily Rad, that the most powerful piece of
Charlemagne’s service has suddenly resurfaced and the Game has begun
again, Alexandra is swept into a journey that takes her from Colorado
to the Russian wilderness and at last into the heart of her own
hometown: Washington D.C.
1822, Albania: Thirty years after the
French Revolution, when the chess service was unearthed, all of Europe
hovers on the brink of the War of Greek Independence. Ali Pasha, the
most powerful ruler in the Ottoman Empire, has angered the sultan and is
about to be attacked by Turkish forces. Now he sends the only person he
can rely upon–his young daughter, Haidee – on a dangerous mission to
smuggle a valuable relic out of Albania, through the mountains and over
the sea, to the hands of the one man who might be able to save it.
Haidee’s
journey from Albania to Morocco to Rome to Greece, and into the very
heart of the Game, will result in revelations about the powerful chess
set and its history that will lead at last to the spot where the
service was first created more than one thousand years before: Baghdad.
Blending
exquisite prose and captivating history with nonstop suspense, Neville
again weaves an unforgettable story of peril, action, and intrigue.
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