{"product_id":"2940169439670","title":"Zugzwang: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZugzwang: A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness-he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is spellbound by the international chess championship, even as the city seethes with revolutionary plots. One blustery April day, a respected newspaper editor is murdered in front of a shocked crowd. Five days later, Dr. Otto Spethmann, the celebrated psychoanalyst, receives a visit from the police. There has been another murder in the city-and somehow he is implicated. The doctor is mystified and deeply worried, as much for his young, spirited daughter as for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, he finds himself preoccupied by two new patients: Anna Petrovna, a society beauty plagued by nightmares with whom he is inappropriately falling in love, and the troubled genius Rozental, a brilliant but fragile chess master on the verge of a complete breakdown. As Dr. Spethmann is drawn deeper into the murderous intrigue, he finds that he, his patients, and his daughter may all be pawns in a game larger in scope than anything he could have imagined. Thrilling, romantic, and rife with intrigue both on the chessboard and off, \u003ci\u003eZugzwang\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece of literary suspense.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097973801200,"sku":"2940169439670","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169439670_p0.jpg?v=1769895117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169439670","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}