MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02102cam a2200325 a 4500
001 2008026624
003 DLC
005 20090521172315.0
008 080617s2008 nyua 000 1 eng
010 $a 2008026624
020 $a9780345500670 (alk. paper)
020 $a0345500679 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)191922570
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn191922570
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dOCLCG$dUPZ$dC#P$dDLC
050 00 $aPS3564.E8517$bF57 2008
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aNeville, Katherine,$d1945-
245 14 $aThe fire :$ba novel /$cKatherine Neville.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBallantine Books ;$cc2008.
300 $a451 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aSequel to: Eight, 1989.
520 $a2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family's ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother's birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with them the secrets of the power that comes with possessing it. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing and that a series of strategically placed clues, followed swiftly by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious assortment of houseguests, indicates that something sinister is afoot. 1822, Albania: Thirty years after the French Revolution, when the chess service was unearthed, all of Europe hovers on the brink of the War of Greek Independence. Ali Pasha, the most powerful ruler in the Ottoman Empire, has angered the sultan and is about to be attacked by Turkish forces. Now he sends the only person he can rely upon-his young daughter, Haidee--on a dangerous mission to smuggle a valuable relic out of Albania, through the mountains and over the sea, to the hands of the one man who might be able to save it.
650 0 $aQuests (Expeditions)$vFiction.
650 0 $aChess sets$vFiction.
650 0 $aPuzzles$vFiction.
650 0 $aFamily secrets$vFiction.
655 0 $aCode and cipher stories.
655 7 $aSuspense fiction.$2gsafd