BOOK: The Eight

The Eight
Katherine Neville

I read really fast and I found that I couldn't read fast enough to get to the next page...it was sooo good! I can't recommend this book highly enough.

"From Library Journal: The Montglane Service, an ornate, jeweled chess set given to Charlemagne by the Moors, is said to hold a code which when deciphered will bring great power. Nations and individuals have schemed to possess all the pieces. As the set is dispersed during the French Revolution, a young novice risks her life to safeguard it. Alternating with her story are the present-day efforts of a U.S. computer expert and a Russian chess master to assemble the set and solve its mystery. Studying the code involves musical notation, chess strategy, Fibonacci numbers, and mysticism. This intriguing and complex first novel, while offering historical insights and interesting introductory quotations, calls occasionally for the suspension of credulity. The interweaving of fact and fiction is skillfully done. Highly recommended. BOMC selection.
-- Ellen Kaye Stoppel, Drake Univ. Law Lib., Des Moines"