Grandmaster
Two men, born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, driven to oppose each other – for only one man may be the Grandmaster.
Justin Gilead and Alexander Zharkov, two men driven by powerful forces they can neither understand nor deny – driven to fight each other in a battle for power that only one of them may win.
Gilead, a magnificent
athlete, an American, a genius, and a spy. Zharkov, a master
strategist, head of the feared secret service agency, Nichevo, a
determined, ambitious man.
They first meet as ten-year-old chess
prodigies-both lonely, both meaning to win, both born under the
magical sign of the gold coiled serpent. They will come to know the
uses of pleasure, the secrets of pain, the impact of evil turned upon
itself. They will understand the deadly forces that grip the world in
swift violence, sudden death. And they will finally know that only one
man may be the Grandmaster.
Grandmaster is an extraordinary tale of spymasters and assassins, murder and intrigue played against a background of Far Eastern mysticism from Moscow to Washington, from Havana to Tibet.
