Computer expert Cat Velis is heading for a job to Algeria. Before she goes, a mysterious fortune teller warns her of danger, and an antique dealer asks her to search for pieces to a valuable chess set that has been missing for years...In the South of France in 1790 two convent girls hide valuable pieces of a chess set all over the world, because the game that can be played with them is too powerful....
- ISBN10 0345366239
- ISBN13 9780345366238
- Publish Date 14 January 1990 (first published 11 May 1989)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 624
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780345366238