<p><b>''Remarkedly assured debut ... the advent of a real talent...One to watch'' </b><i>Sunday Times</i><br><b>''Immersive, intriguing, and intelligent - incredibly impressive, up there with the best in the genre'' </b>Lee Child<br><b>________________________</b><br><br><b>It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.</b><br><br>Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet at a chess tournament in London. They don''t know it, but they are about to compete in the deadliest game ever played.<br><br>Shadowing them is Greta, a ruthless resistance fighter who grew up the hard way in the forests of Lithuania, but who is now hunting down some of the most dangerous men in the world.<br><br>Men who are also on the radar of Vassily, perhaps the Soviet Union''s greatest spymaster. A man of cunning and influence, Vassily was Yulia''s minder during her visit to the West, but even he could not foresee the