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The Fire: A Novel
by Neville, Katherine
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0345500679
- ISBN 13
- 9780345500670
- Seller
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Westerville, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Ballantine Books, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x10. Signed. SIGNED FIRST EDITION with photograph. Flat signed by author on title page. Loosely laid in is an actual photograph of the author signing the book at Borders Books. Gently used almost new hardback & jacket in excellent condition. Jacket is in clear protective cover. Text is clean, unmarked. First edition, 1st printing. Full number line ending in "1". (Shelf location: C6)Books are carefully sealed in waterproof mailers and then boxed to prevent damage during transit.
Synopsis
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 FIRE2003, 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.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Crestview Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 079706
- Title
- The Fire: A Novel
- Author
- Neville, Katherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0345500679
- ISBN 13
- 9780345500670
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- 6x1x10
- Keywords
- check may
- X weight
- 32 oz
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Westerville, Ohio
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