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008			080617s2008 nyua 000 1 eng
020			_a9780345500670 (alk. paper)
020			_a0345500679 (alk. paper)
040			_aUSANT _cUSANT _beng _erda
082	0	0	_222 _bN524
100	1		_aNeville, Katherine, _d1945- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe fire : _ba novel / _cKatherine Neville.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bBallantine Books ; _cc2008.
300			_a451 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 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
942			_2ddc _cFIC _iN524 _kFIC _m2008 _n0
999			_c3961 _d3961