The story of a duel to the death, of a chess game that remained unfinished for over 50 years. When a German businessman is shot, a mystery unfolds which takes the reader to the dead man's roots in Vienna, to his rivalry with a young Jewish player, and to the terrible secret in their past.
- ISBN10 0753806711
- ISBN13 9780753806715
- Publish Date 6 May 1999 (first published 9 February 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 September 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 144
- Language English