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Author: K. Neville More powerful, more exciting, more mysterious than the Da Vinci Code. The world bestseller by Catherine Neville is published in Russian for the first time. Ancient knowledge is hidden within the walls of an ancient monastery in the south of France. The power hidden within him goes beyond the laws of nature and human understanding. It is encrypted in ancient chess pieces, and for their possession a bloody struggle begins between sinister figures of the era of the Great Terror. Two hundred years later, computer specialist Catherine Velis receives a warning from a mysterious fortune teller about the danger threatening her and an encrypted prediction of fate. Soon Katherine finds herself at a chess tournament, and something incomprehensible begins to happen around her: people are dying, Katherine herself is being shot at, and she is being pursued by a mysterious man in white. Gradually she begins to understand that some kind of big game is being played and she is assigned the role of a pawn in this game.

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