Without lavishing on the mystery genre as profusely as Dan Brown, Javier Sierra o Matilde Asensi (to cite international references of this genre), Katherine Neville also dazzles a multitude of readers with a plot that addresses transcendent, spiritual, dark enigmas.
In the conceptual difficulty of finding that mysterious element made plot, Neville on many occasions pulls the esoteric, bordering on science fiction at times. But everything always ends up being very close, looking for the wink of the everyday, of the real of our world to awaken the most intense chill.
From the strange sensation of proximity with other parallel worlds, with signals and signs that always want to reveal hidden foundations to our senses, Neville is a kind of always initiatory writer with which to rediscover our world.
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The eight
Since the legend of King Sheram and the clever Sissa, who asked as a reward for the almost infinite grains of wheat that exponentially came out of a chess board, this game has given a lot of itself as an intellectual sport, a sociological emblem and in this case a literary argument. recurrent.
Eight is not the first novel to address chess as the core of a plot. It is not necessary, because the story acquired the relevance of a world bestseller thanks to its new focus between the thriller and the historical mystery. The flashback between the years 1790 and 1972 seems a part of that exponential advance of the years that can lead in advanced squares of the progression from just one square to another contiguous one.
Yes, time comes together for Catherine Velis of New York in 1972 to come into contact with Mireille de Rémy and Valentine, nuns of the France of 1790. The same search for all of them. Because destiny is written between the traces of our hands. And as absurd as it may seem to us, the beginning of a great journey at the moment when our most esoteric omens are also upon us, they cannot just coincide.
Charlemagne's chess board, its influence capable of transforming the world. The labyrinth hovering over everyone to find it. Only a special connection between Cat and the nuns of Montglane Abbey could lead to finding the treasure. The problem may be the consequences.
Magic circle
There is a part of Neville's novelistic argumentation that connects with that deductive aspect of the classics Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie. And this is always appreciated because it adds a pure component of tension to any plot, beyond any artifice about the bad arts of the criminal on duty or the spectacular nature of the current coup. This novel contributes a lot of that desire to involve the reader towards the resolution of the mystery in question.
Ariel is bequeathed some valuable old manuscripts that contain an important secret related to the sacred objects of the tribes of Israel. Whoever manages to decipher them will be the depository of a wisdom so ancient that it is lost in the memory of humanity, will be able to find the origin of the myths, rites, beliefs and symbols of all the great cultures of history and will elucidate the keys for the interpretation of the future.
Thus, as soon as they fall into their hands, Ariel becomes the target of all those who covet her power. To save his life he can only flee in search of the origin of the manuscripts and their meaning. The clues she finds seem to take her further and further away from the outcome: Teutonic runes, Greek myths, the Holy Scriptures and the wisdom of the American Indians seem to revolve in a vicious circle. The only thing left for her to do is to seek a refuge from which she can penetrate into the heart of the mystery and find out the secret that she has traveled so many centuries to be revealed.
Calculated risk
Everything takes on a different dimension when success is achieved. Because this novel was already published before "Eight", but of course, world fame led to a new edition and the reconsideration of this novel as a good plot.
As is often the case, the theme is quite different from the hit for which Katherine became known. Because until the moment when success blurs everything, each author looks for himself, is interested in stories on very different occasions, with suspense as a background that can be compared with the rest of his bibliography, this plot points more to tension of the liveliest actions of suspense that points to the noir genre.
Verity Banks is a computer genius and the most sought-after executive of the all-powerful World Bank, but when her boss discards her proposal to improve the company's computer security, she will not hesitate to hatch a perfect plan that will prove how wrong he is and that, step, bring you a good sum of money. However, Verity's little prank will take on new dimensions when Zoltan Tor, mentor, financial wizard and money-maker, enters the scene and proposes a tempting challenge: steal a billion dollars, invest it to earn thirty million in three months, and return it. without anyone noticing. A high-flying game in which Verity can win everything or lose her life.
