High Priest.

WARREN AND MOLLY COCHRAN MURPHY

Publication: New American Library, 1987, New York

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. They were born on the same day on different continents...Justin Gilead is an American and Alexander Zharkov is a Russian. The two first met during a chess match, both only ten years old. However, that night Justin watches assassins kill his father. He, however, is rescued from the same fate by monks who believed him to be the latest reincarnation of Brahma. For the next fifteen years Justin lives and studies Buddhism under their tutelage. And then, Russian troops attack and burn down the monastery. Justin again survives but is filled with rage and a need for vengeance against the Russians. He obtains work for the CIA enabling him to focus on his target Zarkhov, the chief of the Russian top secret espionage elite unit Nichevo. The life and death chess game between two masters will leave one as the GRANDMASTER and the other dead. Edgar Award Winner.

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