Thrillers Involving Secret Organizations and Conspiracies

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The Eight
By Katherine Neville
F NEVILLE
This adventure thriller is set in two time periods: 1790 and 1972, but the backstory goes back to the 9th century when Charlemagne owned a chess set which held the key to magic, alchemy and cosmic powers. The set was hidden away in an abbey for 1,000 years—until the French Revolution. In 1790 a young novice, becomes aware of the set and its potential and disperses the pieces across Europe. Then in 1972, a computer expert working for an accounting firm with an avid interest in chess is invited to undertake an unusual assignment—locate all the pieces of this long lost chess set. And she is not the only one after the pieces: there’s an antiques dealer, a Soviet chess master, and KGB agents also hot on the trail.

The Club Dumas
By Arturo Perez-Reverte
F PEREZ-REVERTE
Nick Corso, rare book hunter, is on the trail of two extremely rare items: the original manuscript for Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers and a 17th century book dealing with Satan worship, The Nine Doors to the Kingdom of Shadow. The search takes Corso from Madrid to Toledo then to Sintra (in Portugal) and on to Paris. Everywhere in his travels death follows in his wake. Perez-Reverte creates here an extremely sophisticated and clever mystery/thriller fully immersed in the world of books.

The Book of Names
By Jill Gregory and Karen Tintori
MYSTERY GREGORY
This is a fast-paced thriller involving a Kabalistic interpretation of the Book of Names. This ancient document, ostensibly written by Adam, contains an encoded text listing the names of 36 individuals of each generation whose righteousness preserves the earth and its inhabitants.
David Shepherd, a poli-sci professor at Georgetown U, has been prompted with names out of the blue since he was about 15 years old and he has been recording them in a notebook. He has no idea that the names he’s recorded are identical to those being deciphered from this Book of Names. There is an ancient, evil, organization, known as Gnoseos, working to identify and kill each of the 36 “hidden ones” in this generation. They have now nearly achieved their goal. When David Shepherd realizes that the names he has recorded over the years are all of dead people he begins to investigate—and not a moment too soon.