The English Chess Player

Early one morning, Jonathan receives a call from his City of London fund management firm. His boss and mentor, Robert, has been found dead under suspicious circumstances and Jonathan is summoned to the office. Left alone, he decides, quite out of character, to open Robert’s private safe. Inside lies an envelope addressed to Jonathan, containing vital evidence concerning a powerful worldwide criminal network: the Cathards. The organisation has been operating in the shadows for hundreds of years, largely undetected. They will stop at nothing to recover these documents. He is forced to flee for his life, leaving London with the thugs on his heels. With him on the journey is his beautiful but serially unfaithful girlfriend Elisabeth. On the other side of the Atlantic, senior CIA operative Linda is summoned to a meeting with the President. Without much hesitation she accepts the role as team leader of an undercover group of agents. They have two months to stop the head of the US Cathards from being elected to the Senate. Halfway through the chase Linda gets a sense that another force is holding them back. It’s a force from deep within British Intelligence who plays them all like pieces on a chessboard.