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FLASH! Definition of the word "thriller" changes. Now the word "thriller" can be deemed to include slow moving, overly convoluted stories that wander from point to point with little actual plot covered!

Yes we have another story here in the vein of The Da Vinci Code. (I have been informed that this book was written in '88. I had originally said it was "apparently inspired by said Da Vinci Code". My error. That said, it doesn't make the book any better.) Taking place in both the past and the future with "countless" number based clues, cues and proofs.

That's right the number.....8! FIGURES HEAVILY in the story, duh,duh,duh.

Beginning back in the time of Charlemagne (or....does it go further back?) our story revolves around an ornate chess set that is imbued (or possibly endowed) with some great and (possibly) evil power.

So...a cunning abbess sends off some nuns each of them carrying a single piece of the chess set (well she sends two novices off who haven't taken their vows yet and they go to the big city and become nude models... an interesting career choice, you know for would-be nuns).

We are also tracking things in the "present" as "powers" seek to find said chess set.

So with all this, plots, counter plots, conspiracies going on, how can this be one of the most boring, slow moving, stultifying books I've picked up in weeks?

I don't know. But it manages.

Can't recommend this one.