The World Played Chess: A Novel

About Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times Wall Street Journal Washington Post and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series which is set in Seattle and has sold more than seven million books worldwide. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series and the David Sloane series of legal thrillers. He has also written several stand-alone books including the novels The 7th Canon and Damage Control; the literary novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell Suspense Magazines 2018 Book of the Year for which Dugoni won an AudioFile Earphones Award for narration; and the nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary a Washington Post best book of the year. Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Book Award for fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He is a two-time finalist for the Thriller Awards and the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction and a finalist for the Silver Falchion Award for mystery and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. Robert Dugonis books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Visit his website at www.robertdugonibooks.com and follow him on Twitter @robertdugoni and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorRobertDugoni.