Zugzwang

<strong>Zugzwang</strong> describes a deadly chess position in which a player must move butevery move makes his position even worse. This thriller is set in St ... » 

Zugzwang describes a deadly chess position in which a player must move butevery move makes his position even worse. This thriller is set in St Petersburgin 1914 and involves a psychoanalyst who is implicated in a murder and isfalling in love with one of his patients a chess master. From the author ofHavoc In Its Third Year and The Catastrophist. A clever and excitingthriller... gripping a rare treat Daily Mail «