The games house
β Scribed by Claire North
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 278 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York, NY
- ISBN
- 0356513122
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The World Fantasy Award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August presents a mesmerizing tale of a gambling house whose deadly games of chance and skill control the fate of empires.
Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets...
It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon - every game under the sun.
But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league... a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on the scale of a continent.
Among those worthy of competing in the higher league, three unusually talented contestants play for the highest stakes of all...
**This novel was originally published as three digital-only novellas:The Serpent, The Thief , and The Master. **
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β¦ Subjects
Paris (Jeux de hasard) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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