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The Eight

The Eight

The Eight, published 1988, is American author Katherine Neville's debut novel. It is an adventure/quest novel in which the heroine, computer whiz Catherine Velis, must enter into a cryptic world of danger and conspiracy in order to recover the pieces of a legendary chess set once owned by Charlemagne, and buried for one thousand years.


“Muses had a way of killing those whom they inspired.”

Source: The Eight

“Only boring people are bored.”

Source: The Eight

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