Personal complications arise when agent Ray Guinness investigates the sabotage of a secret atomic project and the threats made against the engineer's the engineer is married to Guinness's first wife and the girl is his own daughter
Nicholas Guild was born in Belmont, California in 1944. He graduated from Occidental College with a B.A. in English in 1966 and from the University of California at Berkeley with an M.A. in Comparative Literature (1968) and a Ph.D. in English (1972). Since then he has divided his time between teaching and writing. He currently lives in Frederick, MD.