Arturo Pérez-Reverte: The Flanders Panel. Printed book.

An unfinished chess game in a painting by a Flemish master and a mysterious inscription discovered beneath layers of paint become the key to investigating a series of brutal modern-day murders. Each character in the novel becomes a chess piece participating in the diabolical game unfolding around them. The silent drama captured in the painting finds a strange continuation centuries later. Painting and mathematics, logic and history are all put to service in a precise, intricately crafted plot set in the world of collectors and antique dealers. The narrative leads the protagonists into the past, forcing them to discover that time has no power over human passions. And, unlike in chess, in reality "nothing is ever just black or white": good easily turns into evil, and victim into executioner.

Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Translator: N. Kirillova

Pages: 512 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 185x120x21 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics