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| Author | Katherine Neville |
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| Genre | Quest |
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| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 624 |
| ISBN | 0-345-35137-1 (US) / 978-0345366238 (UK) |
| OCLC | 18070631 |
| 823/.914 19 | |
| LC Class | PS3564.E8517 E35 1989 |
| Followed by | The Fire |
The Eight, published in 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.
A sequel, The Fire, appeared in 2008.