About the book: 1995 / It is known that in a gambit, one of the playing parties at the very beginning of a chess game sacrifices a piece, usually a pawn, in order to immediately take an active position and move to attack. The role of such a “pawn”, who was cynically “handed over” by financial businessmen, turned out to be Francesca, the main character of the novel “The Corsican Gambit”. However, life cruelly laughed at her offenders…