Modern Chess Fiction

[Wayne Komer]

Modern Chess Fiction

April 1, 2021

In 1951 Kester Svendsen, a professor of English literature at the University of Oklahoma, published “Chess Fiction in English to 1945, a bibliography”.

It contained no fewer than 553 entries, ranging alphabetically from Samuel H. Adams's “Banner by the Roadside” (1944) to Stefan Zweig's “The Royal Game” (also 1944), and going all the way back to William Caxton's “The Right Pleasant and Goodlie Historie of the Four Sons of Aymon” (1489).

Douglas Bett’s Annotated Bibliography of Chess Works Published in the English Language 1850-1968 [1974] has Section 44 – Chess in Fiction. There are 165 entries, with only one as recent as 1965.

There is a Facebook group called Chess Book Collectors. One member, the Swiss, Jean-Marc Horber, recently published a small slide show of his collection of books on chess fiction. It can be seen at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/206305099539809?fref=nf

Scan down the page to find his photos

and he is at:

https://www.facebook.com/jeanmarc.horber

The main point is that we have a genuine collector who has carefully selected modern works of chess fiction (from the past 50 years) and let us see the collection.

I have transcribed the titles, authors and publishers and put them on to an excel spreadsheet. These are listed below.

To ensure accuracy, I checked each book and found, much to my amazement, that they were almost available at either amazon.ca or the sites of the French, German and Italian branches.

This list then becomes for the collector and reader a modern list of chess fiction. If a title is given in one language, it is almost certainly available in English translation somewhere. A couple of hours study will repay anyone who enjoys chess literature.

I am interested in hearing from anyone about specific titles in the list and their experience with them.
Adding other works can be enjoyable work to be undertaken at a later date.

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		Chess Fiction in the collection of Jean-Marc Horber				Publisher
	-			-
1		Suskind, Patrick	-	Ein Kampf		Diogenes
2		Zemsky, Kenneth		Knight to King 4		Grace Notes
3		Bouchard, Jean-Francois		Sombre tango d'un maître d'échecs		Max Milo
4		Waterman, Andrew		The Poetry of Chess		Anvil
5		Magnus, Ariel		Die Schachspieler von Buenos Aires		Kiwi
6		Bulthaupt, Freerk		Öffnungen: Die Lebenszüge des Schachmeisters Greco		Ate
7		Geilmann, Ulrich		Portrait des Meisters		Der Schachtherapeut
8		Josten, Gerhard		Aljechins Gambit		Verlag Helmut Ladwig
9		Nicols, Léon		Le dernier prophète		Presses Litera
10		Ogawa, Yoko		Schwimmen mit Elefanten		Liebeskind Verlagsbhdlg
11		Burton, Jeffrey		Der Schachspieler		Heyne Taschenbuch
12		Bauhaus, Ben		Bullet Schach		Egmont Lyx
13		K-Fehrmann, Meike		Kakerlaken Schach		Books on Demand
14		Donoghue John		The Death's Head Chess Club		Picador;
15		Grozdanovitch, Denis		La vie rêvée du joueur d'échecs		Grasset
16		Swami, Om		La vie est un jeu d'échecs		Fleurus
17		Adelmann, Dieter		Montags-Schach		Books on Demand
18		Tammet, Daniel		Mishenka		les arenas
19		Klass, David		Siegen kann tödlich sein		Freies Geistesleben GmbH
20		Kraai, Jesse		Lisa		Zugzwang Press
21		Maurensig, Pablo		Il Gioco Degli Dei		Einaudi
22		Maurensig, Pablo		Teoria delle ombre		Adelphi
23		Maurensig, Pablo		L'Ultima Traversa		Edizioni Theoria
24		Hoffman, Paul		King's Gambit		Hachette
25		Hansen, Brooks		The Chess Garden		Star Pine Books
26		Smith, William Kent		Incident at the Sicilian Dragon		Players Press
27		Goldowsky, Howard (ed)		Masters of Technique		Mongoose Press
28		Dubois, Jennifer		Das Leben ist groß		Aufbau Verlag
29		Keckhut, John		The Dublin Pawn		Norton
30		Losfeld, Joelle		Échec et mat: Une anthologie de nouvelles policières		Editions Joelle Losfeld
31		Braun, Yakov		Le Gambit du diable		Cherche midi
32		Martinez, Guillermo		Roderers Eroffnung		Eichborn Verlag
33		Delman, David		The Last Gambit		St. Martin's Press
34		Zelman, Anita		The Right Moves		St. Martin's Press
35		Nav, Jean Gerard		Le Dilemme de Pelikan		Editions L'Harmattan
36		Coggins, Mark		The Immortal Game		CreateSpace Independent Publishing
37		Chesbro, George		King's Gambit		Apache Beach Pubs
38		Leonhardt, Henrike		Der Taktmesser: Johann Nepomuk Mälzel		Kellner
39		Walsh, Rodolfo		Die Augen des Verräters		Rotpunktverlag
40		Eddine, Ilf		Dernière ronde		elyzed
41		Truzzi, Marcello (ed)		Chess in Literature		Avon
42		Dormond, Sabine		Les Parricides		Bsn Press
43		Kosztolonyi, Dezso		Schachmatt: Novellen		Corvina
44		Edlinger, Karl Andreas		Matt in sieben Zügen: Schachgeschichten aus 12 Ländern		P. Neff
45		Boito, Arrigo		Le Fou noir suit de Le Poing fermé		mille et une nuits
46		Zweig, Stefan		Schachnovelle		lulu.com
47		Malzberg, Barry		Tactics of Conquest		Hachette
48		Hood, David		Schach und Matt		Droemer Knaur
49		Chang, Shi-Kuo		Chess King		Aslaplac Books
50		Lieber, Fritz		A Pail of Air		Aeonian Pr
51		Mark, Ted		Sex Mates of a Chess Mistress		Dell
52		Murphy, Warren & Cochran, M		Grandmaster		Forge Books
53		Perez-Reverte, Arturo		Le Tableau du maître flamand		Livre de Poche
54		Klein, Gerard		Le Gambit des étoiles		Marabout
55		Guenter, C. H.		Wotans Rache		Taschenbuch
56		Saberhagen, Fred (ed)		Pawn to Infinity		Ace Books
57		Leiber, Fritz		The Change War		Gregg Press
58		Watson, Ian		Queenmagic, Kingmagic		Immanion
59		Forster, R. & Steffan, U.		Auf die Dame kommt es an - Schachgeschicten		Unionsverlag
60		Unamuno, Miguel de		Don Sandalio, Chess player		De Gruyter
61		Krystufek, Peter		Das flambierte Schachspiel		Beyer Verlag
62		Krystufek, Peter		Die Lustilinge Vom Schwarz - Weissen Brett		Munster International
63		Ellinger, Dr. Hans		Tübinger Beiträge zum Thema Schach		Promos
64		Weil, Bernd		Schach dem Teufel		Books on Demand
65		Meras, Iccokas		Remis für Sekunden		Aufbau Verlag
66		Herbstman, Alexander		Das Geheimnis des Schwarzen Königs		Sportverlag
67		Kotov, Alexander		Belye i chernye		Russkii shakhmatnyi dom
68		Chapin, Sasha		All the Wrong Moves		McClelland and Stewart
69		Lovejoy, David		Moral Victories		Echo Publications
70		Dupuy-Mazuel, H.		Der Schachspieler		Knaur
71		Lasker, Emanuel		Wie Wanja Meister wurde Eine Erzaehlung aus der Schachwelt		Exzelsior Verlag
72		Stassi, Fabio		Die Letzte Partie		Kein + Aber
73		Keyes, Frances Parkinson		The Chess Players		Fawcett Crest
74		Nikula, Reiner		Tödliches Schach		grafit
75		Nabokov, Vladimir		Lushins Verteidigung		Rowohlt Taschenbuch
76		Thirion, Jean-Benoit		Contes de L'Echiquier		Plein Chant
77		Gohler, Antje		Balcke oder Der hypermoderne Prometheus		Regenbrecht Verlag
78		Martini, Christiane		Die venezianische Schachspielerin		Piper Taschenbuch
79		Bunje, Dirk		Der Schachspieler und andere skurrile Geschichten		Books on Demand
80		Wieteck, Helmut		Das mächtige Spiel		Dreier

To be continued

[Wayne Komer]

Modern Chess Fiction

April 1, 2021

Modern Chess Fiction (continued)

Pawn to Infinity was discussed before:

https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...ion#post178212

as was The Death’s Head Chess Club

https://forum.chesstalk.com/forum/ch...-john-donoghue

81		Korth, Manfred		Gardez!. Roman um einen Schachbesessenen		Frieling Verlag
82		Weyand, Kai		Schiefer eröffnet spanisch		Wallstein Verlag
83		Ellison, James		Master Prim		Macdonald and Co
84		Maurensig, Paolo		The Luneburg Variation		Farrar Straus & Giroux
85		Trevis, Walter		The Queen's Gambit		Vintage
86		Plockinger, Othmar		Die Abenteuer eines Bauern auf dem Schachbrett		Berenkamp Verlag
87		Premcand, Munshi		Die Schachspieler		-
88		Sery, Patrick		Le maitre et le scorpion		Flammarion
89		Hort, Vlastimil		Schwarz weiße Erzählungen		Barenhort Verlag
90		Hort, Vlastimil		My chess stories		newinchess
91		Moss, Stephen		The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life)		Wisden
92		Gavin, Thomas		KingKill		Random House
93		Griffiths, John		The Memory Man		Putnam Pub Group
94		Rezvani		Fous d'echecs		Actes Sud
95		Wolf, Thomas		Schachmatt aus Leidenschaft		Books on Demand
96		Glyn, Anthony		The Dragon Variation		Simon and Schuster
97		Lysiak, Waldemar		Schach dem Kaiser		Hoffmann & Campe
98		Leithauser, Brad		Hence		Knopf
99		Baldi, Alexander (trans)		Das Schachgedicht des Hieronymus Vida		Heiten
100		Kochanowski, Jan		Das Schachspiel		Edition Rugerup
101		Padilla, Ignacio		Shadow Without a Name		Picador
102		Lohr, Robert		Der Schachautomat		Piper
103		Glavinic, Thomas		Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden		Deutscher Taschenbuch
104		Henrichs, Bertina		Die Schachspielerin		Atlantik Verlag
105		Parker, Peter		Tatwaffe Königsspringer		Rau
106		Hochberg, Burt (ed)		64-Square Looking Glass		Times Books
107		Hallman, J.C.		The Chess Artist		St. Martin's Press
108		Stryker, Dev		Endgame		Forge
109		Peyton, Richard (ed)		Sinister Gambits		Souvenir Press
110		Matanovic, Aleksandar		Schach ist Schach		Chess Informant
111		Crothers, Tim		The Queen of Katwe		Penguin Random
112		Gerrold, David		Chess with a Dragon		Avon
113		Soltis, Andy		Los Voraces 2019		McFarland
114		Sawaski, James		The Chess Team (A Novel)		Luniverse
115		Yaffe, Charles		Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World		McFarland
116		Hetzel, Pierre-Jules		La Tour, prends garde		Hachette
117		Cheng, Ah		Three Kings		New Directions
118		Knight, N. and Guy, W.		King, Queen and Knight: Chess Anthology		St. Martin's Press
119		Bennett, Ronan		Zugzwang		Bloomsbury
120		Berchtold, Jacques		Echiquiers d'Encre Le jeu d'échecs et des lettres (XIXe-XXe s.)		Droz
121		Vollmar, Eduard		Schachparodien von Goethe vis Bertolt Brecht		Selbstverlag
122		Caris, John		Reality Inspector		Westgate House
123		Malaplate & Maray, Ch.D.		Adventuriers du Jeu Royal		Echecs International
124		Durrenmatt, Friedrich		Der Schachspieler		Officina Ludi
125		Seidel, J and Jaket, Uwe		Marisa: Eine Traumgeschichte in schwarz und weiss		Gunther, Wolfgang
126		Editors		Modern Short Story Classics of Suspense		Reader's Digest
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[Wayne Komer]

Modern Chess Fiction

April 1, 2021

Modern Chess Fiction (continued)

The list alphabetically

		Alphabetic Listing of Chess Fiction Titles
		-
1	-	Hochberg, Burt (ed)	-	64-Square Looking Glass
2		Lieber, Fritz		A Pail of Air
3		Malaplate & Maray, Ch.D.		Adventuriers du Jeu Royal
4		Yaffe, Charles		Alekhine's Anguish: A Novel of the Chess World
5		Josten, Gerhard		Aljechins Gambit
6		Chapin, Sasha		All the Wrong Moves
7		Forster, R. & Steffan, U.		Auf die Dame kommt es an - Schachgeschicten
8		Gohler, Antje		Balcke oder Der hypermoderne Prometheus
9		Kotov, Alexander		Belye i chernye
10		Bauhaus, Ben		Bullet Schach
11		Glavinic, Thomas		Carl Haffners Liebe zum Unentschieden
12		Truzzi, Marcello (ed)		Chess in Literature
13		Chang, Shi-Kuo		Chess King
14		Gerrold, David		Chess with a Dragon
15		Thirion, Jean-Benoit		Contes de L'Echiquier
16		Krystufek, Peter		Das flambierte Schachspiel
17		Herbstman, Alexander		Das Geheimnis des Schwarzen Königs
18		Dubois, Jennifer		Das Leben ist groß
19		Wieteck, Helmut		Das mächtige Spiel
20		Baldi, Alexander (trans)		Das Schachgedicht des Hieronymus Vida
21		Kochanowski, Jan		Das Schachspiel
22		Lohr, Robert		Der Schachautomat
23		Burton, Jeffrey		Der Schachspieler
24		Dupuy-Mazuel, H.		Der Schachspieler
25		Durrenmatt, Friedrich		Der Schachspieler
26		Bunje, Dirk		Der Schachspieler und andere skurrile Geschichten
27		Leonhardt, Henrike		Der Taktmesser: Johann Nepomuk Mälzel
28		Eddine, Ilf		Dernière ronde
29		Plockinger, Othmar		Die Abenteuer eines Bauern auf dem Schachbrett
30		Walsh, Rodolfo		Die Augen des Verräters
31		Stassi, Fabio		Die Letzte Partie
32		Krystufek, Peter		Die Lustilinge Vom Schwarz - Weissen Brett
33		Premcand, Munshi		Die Schachspieler
34		Magnus, Ariel		Die Schachspieler von Buenos Aires
35		Henrichs, Bertina		Die Schachspielerin
36		Martini, Christiane		Die venezianische Schachspielerin
37		Unamuno, Miguel de		Don Sandalio, Chess player
38		Losfeld, Joelle		Échec et mat: Une anthologie de nouvelles policières
39		Berchtold, Jacques		Echiquiers d'Encre Le jeu d'échecs et des lettres (XIXe-XXe s.)
40		Suskind, Patrick		Ein Kampf
41		Stryker, Dev		Endgame
42		Rezvani		Fous d'echecs
43		Korth, Manfred		Gardez!. Roman um einen Schachbesessenen
44		Murphy, Warren & Cochran, M		Grandmaster
45		Leithauser, Brad		Hence
46		Maurensig, Pablo		Il Gioco Degli Dei
47		Smith, William Kent		Incident at the Sicilian Dragon
48		K-Fehrmann, Meike		Kakerlaken Schach
49		Knight, N. and Guy, W.		King, Queen and Knight: Chess Anthology
50		Hoffman, Paul		King's Gambit
51		Chesbro, George		King's Gambit
52		Gavin, Thomas		KingKill
53		Zemsky, Kenneth		Knight to King 4
54		Maurensig, Pablo		L'Ultima Traversa
55		Hetzel, Pierre-Jules		La Tour, prends garde
56		Swami, Om		La vie est un jeu d'échecs
57		Grozdanovitch, Denis		La vie rêvée du joueur d'échecs
58		Nicols, Léon		Le dernier prophète
59		Nav, Jean Gerard		Le Dilemme de Pelikan
60		Boito, Arrigo		Le Fou noir suit de Le Poing fermé
61		Klein, Gerard		Le Gambit des étoiles
62		Braun, Yakov		Le Gambit du diable
63		Sery, Patrick		Le maitre et le scorpion
64		Perez-Reverte, Arturo		Le Tableau du maître flamand
65		Dormond, Sabine		Les Parricides
66		Kraai, Jesse		Lisa
67		Soltis, Andy		Los Voraces 2019
68		Nabokov, Vladimir		Lushins Verteidigung
69		Seidel, J and Jaket, Uwe		Marisa: Eine Traumgeschichte in schwarz und weiss
70		Ellison, James		Master Prim
71		Goldowsky, Howard (ed)		Masters of Technique
72		Edlinger, Karl Andreas		Matt in sieben Zügen: Schachgeschichten aus 12 Ländern
73		Tammet, Daniel		Mishenka
74		Editors		Modern Short Story Classics of Suspense
75		Adelmann, Dieter		Montags-Schach
76		Lovejoy, David		Moral Victories
77		Hort, Vlastimil		My chess stories
78		Bulthaupt, Freerk		Öffnungen: Die Lebenszüge des Schachmeisters Greco
79		Saberhagen, Fred (ed)		Pawn to Infinity
80		Geilmann, Ulrich		Portrait des Meisters
81		Watson, Ian		Queenmagic, Kingmagic
82		Caris, John		Reality Inspector
83		Meras, Iccokas		Remis für Sekunden
84		Martinez, Guillermo		Roderers Eroffnung
85		Lysiak, Waldemar		Schach dem Kaiser
86		Weil, Bernd		Schach dem Teufel
87		Matanovic, Aleksandar		Schach ist Schach
88		Hood, David		Schach und Matt
89		Wolf, Thomas		Schachmatt aus Leidenschaft
90		Kosztolonyi, Dezso		Schachmatt: Novellen
91		Zweig, Stefan		Schachnovelle
92		Vollmar, Eduard		Schachparodien von Goethe vis Bertolt Brecht
93		Weyand, Kai		Schiefer eröffnet spanisch
94		Hort, Vlastimil		Schwarz weiße Erzählungen
95		Ogawa, Yoko		Schwimmen mit Elefanten
96		Mark, Ted		Sex Mates of a Chess Mistress
97		Padilla, Ignacio		Shadow Without a Name
98		Klass, David		Siegen kann tödlich sein
99		Peyton, Richard (ed)		Sinister Gambits
100		Bouchard, Jean-Francois		Sombre tango d'un maître d'échecs
101		Malzberg, Barry		Tactics of Conquest
102		Parker, Peter		Tatwaffe Königsspringer
103		Maurensig, Pablo		Teoria delle ombre
104		Leiber, Fritz		The Change War
105		Hallman, J.C.		The Chess Artist
106		Hansen, Brooks		The Chess Garden
107		Keyes, Frances Parkinson		The Chess Players
108		Sawaski, James		The Chess Team (A Novel)
109		Donoghue John		The Death's Head Chess Club
110		Glyn, Anthony		The Dragon Variation
111		Keckhut, John		The Dublin Pawn
112		Coggins, Mark		The Immortal Game
113		Delman, David		The Last Gambit
114		Maurensig, Paolo		The Luneburg Variation
115		Griffiths, John		The Memory Man
116		Waterman, Andrew		The Poetry of Chess
117		Crothers, Tim		The Queen of Katwe
118		Trevis, Walter		The Queen's Gambit
119		Zelman, Anita		The Right Moves
120		Moss, Stephen		The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life)
121		Cheng, Ah		Three Kings
122		Nikula, Reiner		Tödliches Schach
123		Ellinger, Dr. Hans		Tübinger Beiträge zum Thema Schach
124		Lasker, Emanuel		Wie Wanja Meister wurde Eine Erzaehlung aus der Schachwelt
125		Guenter, C. H.		Wotans Rache
126		Bennett, Ronan		Zugzwang

[Wayne Komer]

Modern Chess Fiction

April 4, 2021

Horber’s first set of slides dealt with books of chess fiction. This one features books where chess is not the main content, also when there is some chess relation in the title/or the cover.

Some of these books were old when I was a young man. I loved the science fiction of Edgar Rice Burroughs – hence The Chessman of Mars. S.S. Van Dine was a detective writer of the ‘20s, hence The Bishop Murder Case. The Dashiell Hammett has a revolver, a chessboard, a package of Camel cigarettes and a bottle of Old Grand-Dad on the cover.

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=...67019300135043

Edward Winter has an article on Chess in Fiction at:

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/fiction.html

He mentions Le duel by Arnaldur Indridason. The blurb on the cover is this:

Été 1972. le commissaire Marion Briem n'a que faire de la Guerre froide, des Russes et des Américains qui s'affrontent a Reykjavik lors d'un championnat d'échecs: un adolescent vient d'être assassiné dans un cinéma de quartier. Pourtant, elle comprend que ce mettre est lié au duel annoncé Et dans l'ambiance survoltée qui règne en ville, la tache du futur mentor d'Erlendur n'a rien d'aisée.

Those of you who have watched the commentating on chess24 will have heard of Jovanka Houska. She has a book called The Mating Game. This publisher’s blurb:

Meet Ivana ('call me Vanny') Jones, a sexy, beautiful, warm-hearted professional chess-player. She has a problem: she's only attracted to guys who can beat her... so what's she to do when a chess amateur, the Russian billionaire Boris Bogolyubov, proposes marriage?

- Books where chess is secondary (at best) Jean-Marc Horber ''- No - Author Title Publisher - - - 1 Anderson, Poul A Circus of Hells Signet 2 Kutner, Henry Chessboard Planet Hamlyn 3 Cotton, Jerry Damenopfer in Las Vegas Bastei-Lubbe 4 Chandler, Raymond Das hohe Fenster Diogenes 5 Debra, Pascal Der Schachspieler Books on Demand 6 Riesco, Nerea Der Turm der Konige Scherz Verlag 7 Canetti Elias Die Blendung [Auto da Fé] Jonathan Cape 8 Neville, Katherine Die Botschaft des Feuers Diana Verlag 9 Zeindler, Peter Die Meisterpartie Pendragon 10 Dahlmann, Paul Tobias Die Partie der Sterne neobooks 11 Carter, Stephen L. Die schwarze Dame Ullstein 12 Chabon, Michael Die Vereinigung Jiddischen Polizisten Kiwi 13 Indridason, Arnaldur Duel Lubbe 14 Camphausen, Wolfgang Eine kleine Schachmusik Dittrich 15 Stout, Rex Gambit Viking 16 Warnsing, Olaf Gefährliche Rochade Verlag 3.0 17 Gunsberg, Alex Geshichten von Liebe, Krieg und Schach Tredition Gmbh 18 Assouline, Pierre Golem Gallimard 19 Whitney, Phyllis Hunter's Green Doubleday 20 Scrimgeour, Anthony Julie and the Seasons of Life Book Guild 21 Hall, Adam Knight Sinister Harper 22 Faulkner, William Knight's Gambit Vintage 23 Van Vogt, A.E. Kosmischer Schachzug [The Pawns of Null-A] Heyne 24 Sweeney, Joseph Mad Queen's Chess Writer Publishing 25 Hammett, Dashiell Meistererzählungen Diogenes 26 Barsch, Frank Schach Elfenbein 27 Borniche, Roger Schach und Matt Fischer S. Verlag 28 Carter, Stephen L. Schachmatt List 29 Valero, Vincente Schachnovellen Berenberg 30 Todorovic, Dana Sopotin Klak 31 Van Dine, S.S. The Bishop Murder Case Pocket 32 Burroughs, Edgar The Chessmen of Mars Ballantine 33 Healy, John The Grass Arena Penguin Books 34 Brunner, John The Squares of the City Ballantine 35 Reilly, Matthew The Tournament Gallery Books 36 Tepper Sheri S. The True Game Nelson Doubleday 37 Bosanko, Abigail Weiße Dame setzt auf Liebe Luebbe 38 Westlake, Donald What's So Funny? Grand Central Publ. -

[Wayne Komer]

Modern Chess Fiction

April 7, 2021

I was moving some piles of chess books around last night and found one entitled The Capablanca Opening at the bottom. I didn’t know I had it and have never read it.

I found a 1977 review, which uses Horowitz’s book on openings as a reference!

“One thing very wrong about THE CAPABLANCA OPENING by David T. Chantler (St. Martin's. $8.95) is its title. It is derived from a chess game that a kidnapped American diplomat in Central America plays with one of his captors; but there is no such thing as the Capablanca Opening. At least, it is not listed in the massive book on chess openings by I. A. Horowitz. Otherwise, this is a fastmoving book about politics, murder and machinations in a Central American country. Among the ingredients are kidnapping, maneuverings by American, British and Russian intelligence services and the plans of an ambitious schemer hoping to take control of the country. Nothing new here, but Chantler puts everything together in a lively way, and nobody is going to be bored.”

Newgate Callendar in the NYT March 20, 1977