More powerful, more captivating, more mysterious than “The Da Vinci Code.”
In the walls of an ancient monastery in the south of France, ancient knowledge is hidden. The force contained within it goes beyond the laws of nature and human understanding. It is encoded in old chess pieces, and a bloody struggle between ominous figures of the Great Terror era begins over possession of them.
Two hundred years later, computer specialist Catherine Willis receives from a mysterious fortune-teller a warning of a danger threatening her and a coded prediction of her fate. Soon Catherine finds herself at a chess tournament, and something incomprehensible begins to happen around her: people die, someone shoots at Catherine herself, and a mysterious man in white stalks her. Gradually, she begins to understand that a larger game is underway—and in that game she has been assigned the role of a pawn…