Bøger af Nicholas Guild

One day in a quiet northern California college town, an English instructor comes home only to find police clustered around his modest home. His wife is dead, stabbed to death with an ice pick, and suddenly Ray Guinness realizes that his past has recaptured him.

"What we need is an American."That was the word from British Military Intelligence. It was October 27, 1941, and Hitler was victorious from Calais to the outskirts of Moscow. Only Britain held out against him, fighting alone, stretched to the limit. Her one hope of survival was that the United States would enter the war, and the Germans were hell-bent to prevent that. It all came down to one desperate gamble.That they needed was an American like David Steadman. Barely recovered from a shrapnel wound sustained in the Spanish Civil War, the rich young adventurer undertakes a lethal mission at the urging of his best friend's beautiful wife, whom he has come, guilt-ridden, to adore. As he flees across Europe, pursued by an SS captain who has tracked him from Spain, Steadman finds everyone turning against him. Through a farrago of passions and dangerous motives, both the British and the Germans want him dead-along with the incendiary secret he carries locked in his memory. What others are saying about The Berlin WarningNew York TimesRead a novel as cleanly composed and well-paced as Nicholas Guild's "Berlin Warning" and you'll never again be satisfied with ordinary thrillers.Library JournalThis is a swift and savage thriller that switches from hunted to hunter as it moves steadily across wartime Europe to a shattering conclusion on the streets of Washington. Guild constructs realistic and complex heroes and villains, as well as a strong supporting cast.Daily TelegraphEqually enjoyable is Nicholas Guild's "The Berlin Warning", a Manhunt thriller which is far better written than most of the genre. . . Books that linger in the mind not only for the power of their plotting but also for the depth of their characterization are rare, but this is one.El Paso Herald PostThis is an excellent novel on three levels. It is a well-paced spy story and a good piece of accurate historical fiction. And it is disturbingly thought-provoking.

In this, the second novel in the Ray Guinness series, he is assigned to stop the apparent sabotage of a highly secret research project in Clemson, South Carolina. The opposition, code named "Flycatcher," has been threatening to murder the children of staff members unless their parents leave the project immediately.On the face of it, this isn't a very high priority assignment, but Ray soon learns that his superiors had a very specific motive for sending him Down South to the land of mint juleps and non-existent gun laws, where he encounters his own past in the persons of his ex-wife and their nine year old daughter.It isn't very long before Guinness-and his enemies-learn just how dangerous a father's love can be.

It was a great team from the start. Simon Faircliff: candidate for the U.S. Senate, the liberal's darling, with the charisma of a great leader. And Frank Austen: young, sharp, ruthless; in search of a job-and a cause. It took them eight years to get Faircliff the White House, and Austen the directorship of the C.I.A. and Faircliff's only daughter for his wife. For Austen it was eight years orchestrating campaigns and clearing the way for the man he had come to love and deeply respect.Only then, when he thought they had captured the world, did Austen have the time to sit back and listen to the nagging inner voice telling him that something, somewhere, was profoundly wrong. A chance encounter with an old man, imprisoned so long he had come to be known as the Political Prisoner Emeritus, sets Austen off to piece together a puzzle so sinister, so terrifying in its implications, that its only resolution is treason.An espionage novel of the highest caliber, The President's Man is also a brilliantly crafted psychological novel, reminiscent of All the King's Men and Advise and Consent in its portrait of political life.What others have said of The President's Man: Kansas City Star'President's Man' is a powerful political thriller.This is Nicholas Guild's fifth novel. His previous books have gained wide critical acclaim for realism, intelligent plotting, sustained action and suspense. The President's Man should prove to be his best effort to date.Mr. Guild is a marvelously facile writer, and The President's Man, because of its power and believability, is easily one of the best political action novels to come along since Advise and Consent.LA Herald ExaminerFor fast moving, hard to put down, political intrigue, Nicholas Guilds latest novel fits all the requirements. Once again, he had spun a narrative with consummate skill and introduced complex characters as real and your best, or worst, friend.Library JournalThis is a well-written, clever story of political intrigue and spies.Asbury Park PressWARNING! Do not begin this book unless you have time on your hands.Don't make the mistake I did-and begin the book about midnight when you must be up early for work the next day. You'll get very little sleep.Only rarely does a novel come along that really merits the hackneyed phrase "You can't put it down. This does.The Clarion-Ledger - Jackson Daily NewsNicholas Guild. . . has written a book about moles called The President's Man, and it is a pleasure to read it.Guild takes his theme to the ultimate step-the president is an agent for the Soviet Union. As unlikely a plot as it would first seem, by the time Guild gets finished with The President's Man the case against the president not only seems likely but inevitable.Such is Guild's story-telling ability. He takes the reader step by step into the finely drawn characterizations of his actors. Simon Faircliff, the senator from California and then president; Frank Austen, the desperate young lawyer who puts his last nickel on Faircliff's first successful campaing; and Faircliff's daughter, Dorothy, who always held her mother's death against her father and then, to her horror, learns that what she had thought was some psychological reaction to her mother's death is literally true.The writing in this book is excellent. In a genre that usually depends on tricks of espionage to rescue the good guys from the bad, adequate writing can often pass for good. Guild, though, is genuine. His prose is clear and his dialogue is easy and believable.It is indeed a pleasure to read a political thriller to which the writer brings such good craftsmanship.Book-of-the-Month Club NewsFeatured SelectionThe President's Man is a perfect example of what an espionage novel should be.

After his brother took his throne and exiled him, Tiglath Ashur finds himself wandering the ancient world of the Mediterranean to outrun the killers sent after him, but Tigalth knows that staying away from his home won’t be an option forever in the sequel novel to The Assyrian. At the close of The Assyrian, readers discover that Esarhaddon has stolen the throne of Assyria from his brother, Tigalth, and exiled his brother from Nineveh. Now, Tigalth is on a flight out of the only home he’s ever known to escape the hate of his brother and the threat of an assassin on his trail. Traveling from the marshes in Euphrates, across the sea and to the desert into Egypt, Tigalth and his former slave, Kephalos, must stay on the move to remain alive. But undoubtedly, something will force him to return to home, whether it be fate or his brother… In the second novel of the Tiglath Ashur saga, readers will discover vibrant characters and enchanting lands in the pages of The Blood Star, will enough violence, sex, romance, treachery, and splendor to keep anyone engaged in this story of ancient history.