Title: The Eight
Author: Katherine Neville
Publisher: Destino Editions
ISBN: 978-84-233-3037-4
Number of pages: 576
Spanish Language
Description:
- Genre: Suspense novel, adventure, thriller.
- Publication date: 1988
- Setting: France and England in the 18th century and the United States in the 1970s
- Protagonists: Catherine Velis, a young computer expert, and John Neville, an enigmatic man who involves her in the search for a legendary chess game.
- Argument:
The novel tells the story of Catherine Velis, a young computer expert who, while working at an artificial intelligence company in Algeria, receives a mysterious message that leads her to embark on a dangerous search. Catherine discovers that the message is related to a legendary chess game that belonged to Charlemagne and that, according to legend, has the power to change the course of history. Catherine teams up with John Neville, an enigmatic man who involves her in the search for chess, and together they must confront a secret organization that wants to take over the game.