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The Fire: A Novel by: Katherine Neville  List Price: $26.00 Your Price: $17.16 You Save: $8.84 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780345500670 ISBN: 0345500679 Label: Ballantine Books Manufacturer: Ballantine Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: October 14, 2008 Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: October 14, 2008 Studio: Ballantine Books Sales Rank: 1191 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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 FIRE 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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Another fun, light-weight historical rompKatherine Neville's novel `The Fire' is a sequel to her first novel `The Eight' (1988). This is a mystery in the same vein as the `Da Vinci Code'; where codes, ciphers, puzzles and conspiracy theories all merge. As mystery thrillers go, The Fire is much like it's predecessor a fun historical romp to uncover the mystery surrounding the mythical/magical chess set of the `Montglane Service'. This is a sequel and even though it can be read stand-alone, it rewards readers that have previously read The ... Read More Rating:  - The Book is A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an EnigmaThe book is A Riddle, Wrapped in a mystery, inside an Enigma The Fire by Katherine Neville is simply dreadful. The novel is simply a Riddle, Wrapped in a mystery, inside an Enigma. I have no idea what this book is about. My wife read it first and simply gave up halfway through. I plowed through and tried to skim the final 200 pages in a desperate attempt to finish it-sadly I finally gave up. In 50+ years of reading this is only the third book I could not finish. How in the world Ms. Neville ... Read More Rating:  - The bestselling and much-acclaimed adventure-quest story begun in THE EIGHT continues in THE FIREIn THE FIRE, the Game continues, and the quest for the legendary Montglane Chess Service crisscrosses the globe and spans two centuries --- from a harem in 19th-century Albania to modern-day Colorado, Alaska, Russia, Georgetown and Washington, D.C. The story weaves historic and modern events, and features famous figures, including Charlemagne, Isaac Newton, Lord George Gordon Byron, Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon. The Game is a quest for the Montglane Service, a fabled, bejeweled chess set created ... Read More Rating: - More intrigueThinking the trip is much too dangerous, Cat Velis begs her husband, Alexander Solarin, not to take their daughter, 12 year old Alexandra Solarin , to Russia for a chess tournament. Even so, they travel to the walled park of Zagorsk for the match. While waiting in line to get into the vestry where the match is to be held, an old woman brushes past Alexandra and leaves her with an embossed card with the Russian word for danger on it. Alexander gets a quick look at the old woman but she can't possibly be who he ... Read More Rating: - Clearly Part 2 of a Trilogy. "The Fire" is one of the "must reads" of the Fall SeasonFirst the good news - After 20 years, the real world chess Game between the White and Black teams is again underway. Alexandra (Xie) The daughter of Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin from 1988's "The Eight" is summoned to her mother's mountaintop Colorado home only to find her missing and a variety of clues left in place. The whirlwind that follows is a very worthwhile read that moves between Washington DC and Russia, seemingly to the very gates of the Land of the Dead. Alexandra is a worthy heroine to succeed ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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