The Eight by Neville, Katherine - 1988

New York: Ballantine Books. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0345351371 . DJ shows slight shelf wear, price-clipped. Previous owner's bookplate pasted on FFEP. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 9.30 X 5.90 X 1.90 inches; 550 pages; "A fabulous, bejeweled chess set that belonged to Charlemagne has been buried in a Pyrenees abbey for a thousand years. As the bloody French Revolution rages in Paris, the nuns dig it up and scatter its pieces across the globe because, when united, the set contains a secret power that could topple civilizations. To keep the set from falling into the wrong hands, two novices, Valentine and Mireille, embark on an adventure that begins in the streets of Paris and leads to Russia, Egypt, Corsica, and into the heart of the Algerian Sahara. Two hundred years later, while on assignment in Algeria, computer expert Catherine Velis finds herself drawn unwillingly into the deadly “Game” still swirling around the legendary chess set—a game that will require her to risk her life and match wits with diabolical forces." .