Description: When two young women in France of 1790 discover the Montglane Chess Service in Montglane Abbey, they recognize its mystic ability to provide anyone playing it with unlimited power and desperately scatter its pieces around the world. But in 1972, computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis is hired to recover the chess pieces--and is caught up in a nefarious, globe-spanning conspiracy.
Review Quotes: "Readers thrilled by The Da Vinci Code will relish the multi-layered secrets of The Eight."
--MATTHEW PEARL, author of The Dante Club
A ROUSING, AMUSING GAME."
--San Francisco Chronicle "A fascinating piece of entertainment that manages to be both vibrant and cerebral . . . Few will find it resistible."
--Los Angeles Times Book Review "With alchemical skill, Neville blends modern romance, historical fiction, and medieval mystery . . . and comes up with gold."
--People