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And no, you don't have to be a chess expert or even to have played the game at all to enjoy this book' Simon O'Hagan, Independent on Sunday 'An engrossing study of a rarified world of eccentricity and achievement ...[a] tale of guile and skulduggery: bugged rooms, bribed coaches, tapped telephones, bluff and counterbluff. Much of it reads like a le Carre\" novel...A closely observed and hugely entertaining portrait of a prodigious British talent' Henry Marten, Sunday Telegraph If Nigel Short is the John Major of chess, Dominic Lawson is the Jeffrey Archer ...Whether you like Archer or not, you'll love Lawson' Daniel Johnson, The Times 'A riveting narrative' Observer Immensely readable . ..The characters come through very precisely' Stephen Tumim, Daily Telegraph 'Gripping narrative ...absorbing between-the-synapses account of an epic drama to which [Lawson] had unique access' Anthony Holden, Sunday Times 'Brilliantly written' Guardian Dominic Lawson is the editor of the Spectator. 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