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No one has rendered more vivid the classic metaphor of war as a game of chess than Maurensig in this suspenseful first novel, published in Italy in 1993 and appearing here in a highly readable translation. The tale of former Jewish concentration camp inmate Tabori and Nazi nemesis Frisch is brought to sinister life in the tradition of mystery masters Paul Auster and Ruth Rendell, e.g., events occur in random order, as pieces of …