Nicholas Guild is an American novelist. He was born in Belmont,

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in 1944 and educated at

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and the

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, where he earned an M.A. in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in English. He currently lives in

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. He is the author of the 1987 novel ''The Assyrian'' and its sequel, ''The Blood Star'', following the fictionalised history of Tiglath Ashur, a fictional half-brother of the historical

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, a real-life king of

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...

. The Orange Coast magazine states that the book recreated the period so effectively that "you'd swear the author, Nicholas Guild, researched the book in a previous life."

Novels

* ''The Macedonian'' (2017) * ''The Spartan Dagger'' (2016) * ''The Ironsmith'' (2016) * ''Blood Ties'' (2015) * ''Angel'' (1995) * ''The Blood Star'' (1989) * ''The Assyrian'' (1987) * ''The Berlin Warning'' (1984) * ''The Linz Tattoo'' (1985) * ''Chain Reaction'' (1983) * ''The President's Man'' (1982) * ''The Favor'' (1981) * ''The Summer Soldier'' (1978) * ''Old Acquaintance'' (1978) * ''The Lost and Found Man'' (1975)

References

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