Nicholas Guild: 20 books

Washington Post The Ray Guinness novels, so far, have contained a rich emotional mix.  Nicholas Guild exhibits the required skill in plot complications, a good sense of setting and atmosphere and the mandatory familiarly with the trivia of espionage, but his basic attraction is that he writes...

New York Times June 3, 1984 Read a novel as cleanly composed and well-paced as Nicholas Guild's "Berlin Warning" and you'll never again be satisfied with ordinary thrillers. Daily Telegraph August 2, 1985 Equally enjoyable is Nicholas Guild's "The...

Kansas City Star May 28, 1982 '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...

In Angel, Nicholas Guild, weaves together a tale of love and madness.  A young lawyer, investigating the circumstances of his father's sudden death, discovers the terrible secret surrounding a girl he fell in love with years before. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, said, "Guild...

Washington Post "Guild has surpassed himself with this long historical novel, which is entertaining from start to finish and leaves one with the feeling that there could yet be another to follow . . .dare we hope!" Publishers Weekly "Shot through with dark, exotic...

Guild's writing is superior to most and he has the ability to form a razor-sharp plot and a character that the reader can identify with and understand.  The ending of the book is suspense at its best.                                       Sacramento Bee Guild's pacing...

The Favor is a thriller but it stands head and shoulders above most of the other entries in this genre.  Unlike the stick figures that populate so many of these books, the characters in The Favor are fully drawn and believable.  They draw sympathy as well as disgust from the reader. In addition,...

The Ironsmith is captivating novel from Nicholas Guild dramatizing the behind-the-scenes political plots to kill Jesus and one man's attempt to save his life. This is the story of Joshua, a carpenter from the village of Nazareth who is called to preach the coming of God's judgment. This is...

KIRKUS REVIEWS – Starred Review Guild, previously a crafter of sturdy political thrillers (Chain Reaction, The Berlin Warning, The Linz Tattoo) here switches genres to surpass himself in a stunning historical epic–the life and loves of a young Assyrian prince—that teems with violence,...

Publishers Weekly February 11, 1983 Joachin von Niehauser is a former physicist, a wounded and decorated veteran of the Russian front and, since the deaths of his father and brothers, a baron.  His is landed on the coast of Maine in 1944 with one desperate mission:  get the Manhattan...

Primera mitad del siglo IV a. C. Una fría noche, a las afueras de una tranquila aldea ilota, dos jóvenes hermanos espartanos, Éurito y Teleclo, esperan agazapados para llevar a cabo su Krypteia, el antiguo rito de iniciación a la sangre. Una familia —padre, madre e hijo— se aproxima; están...

Homicide detective Ellen Ridley of the SFPD is tracking a serial killer terrorizing young women in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ridley is sure she's cornered her most likely suspect: Stephen Tregear, a hacker and code breaker who works for U.S. Naval Intelligence. But Tregear is not the killer... he's...

It is 1948.  Inar Christiansen, a Norwegian studying cello in New York, undertakes an ambitious and dangerous plan—to track down and destroy the members of an SS troop who murdered his parents and most of the citizens of his hometown in Norway during the war.  Christiansen to especially intent...

Nicholas Guild's The Macedonian is a gripping fictional account of the life of Philip of Macedon, the king who sired Alexander the Great and conquered an unprecedented number of ancient Greek city-states. On a cold, snow-swept night in the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, a son is born to...