Nicholas Guild, Author Atheneum Books $21.95 (552p) ISBN 978-0-689-11874-6
Set in ancient Ashur (called Assyria by Greeks), this absorbing epic novel dramatically portrays two royal half-brothers whose childhood camaraderie later gives way to acrimony and violence. Tiglath and Esarhaddon, sons of aging King Sennacherib,...
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Nicholas Guild, Author Atheneum Books $22.5 (664p) ISBN 978-0-689-11898-2
Shot through with dark, exotic lyricism, Guild's majestic historical epic cuts a wide swath through ancient Assyria, Egypt, Phoenicia, Sicily, Greece. Its narrator-hero, Tiglath Ashur, seen before in The Assyrian , is banished from Nineveh by his...
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Nicholas Guild, Author Dell Publishing Company $5.99 (410p) ISBN 978-0-440-22285-9
A lawyer tries to track down the ex-lover whom he suspects of a series of murders. (Dec.)
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Nicholas Guild, Author Berkley Publishing Group $3.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-08778-7
In 1944 Joachim von Niehauser lands on the coast of Maine with the desperate mission of getting Manhattan Project secrets from a Nazi mole in Los Alamos and taking them back to Germany via Mexico. The FBI chases him, and a young army wife becomes...
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Nicholas Guild, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-07-025113-7
After World War II, former SS colonel Hagemann seeks an ex-labor camp inmate who knows the location of a lost formula for lethal nerve gas Hagemann helped developed during the war. A Norwegian and members of Israel's Mossad join the hunt. PW noted...
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Nicholas Guild, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0242-8
In his first novel since the historical epic The Blood Star (1989), Guild returns to the contemporary thriller with a vengeance, spinning an intricate, wonderfully paced tale in which nearly every scene proves vital to the resolution, which peaks...
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Nicholas Guild. Forge, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7845-3
This goose bump–inducing thriller from Guild (Angel) pits San Francisco PD detective Ellen Ridley, revolted by the horrors of her job yet constantly wearing an Ice Queen face, against a vicious and inventive serial killer, who lures susceptible...
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Nicholas Guild. Forge, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7651-0
The central premise of this novel by Guild (The Assyrian) set in ancient Greece strains credulity. Protos, a 14-year-old helot boy, is horrified to witness the slaughter of his parents by twin Spartans, Eurytus and Teleklos, as part of the Krypteia,
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