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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 Tourist 
By Olen Steinhauer
F STEINHAU
Milo Weaver has a desk job with the CIA. Milo interrogates a man being held believed to be an assassin--"the Tiger." Soon "the Tiger" is dead in his cell. When Angela Yates, a colleague from Milo's days in black ops, is under suspicion of trading secrets, Milo pays her a visit. Soon Angela is dead in her apartment. Milo returns home to vacation with his family in Disneyland when his superior call him with a "go" code and Milo sets off on the run. Milo has to figure out what's going on while Homeland security and and the CIA itself are trying to bring him in. 

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 has been prompted with names out of the blue since he was about 15 years old and 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. An ancient organization, known as Gnoseos, is working to identify and kill each of the 36 “hidden ones” in this generation. 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.