Katherine Neville is the
New York Times-bestselling and #1 international bestselling author of spellbinding adventure novels. The
Washington Postcalled her groundbreaking first novel
The Eight"a feminist answer to
Raiders of the Lost Ark." In a national poll by the noted Spanish newspaper
El País, it was voted one of the top ten books of all time. She has written three other novels: the New York Times Notable Book
A Calculated Risk,
The Magic Circle, and
The Fire, the sequel to
The Eight.
Neville's novels, which have been published in more than eighty countries, have been enriched by her twenty-year career as an international computer executive and consultant, which took her to live in six countries on three continents and twenty-six of the United States. She has also worked as a portrait painter, a commercial photographer, and a model. To learn more, visit her at www. katherineneville. com.