The Fire
Price
$5.90
Publisher
Random House Audio
Publication Date
Abridged edition (October 14, 2008
ISBN-13
978-0739357088
Dimensions
5.04 x 1.18 x 5.31 inches
Weight
6 ounces
Description
Review Praise for Katherine Neville’s The Eight “A big, rich, two-tiered confection of a novel . . . a rousing, amusing game.”–San Francisco Chronicle“A fascinating piece of entertainment . . . few will find it resistible.”–Los Angeles Times Book Review “Readers thrilled by The Da Vinci Code will relish the multilayered secrets of The Eight.”–Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club“With an alchemical skill, Neville blends a modern romance, historical fiction, and a medieval mystery . . . and comes up with gold.”–People“A feminist answer to Raiders of the Lost Ark.”–The Washington Post Book World“Impossible to put down.”–Boston Herald From the Hardcover edition.
Features & Highlights
- 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 ches
