Breaking Faith

by Maynard F. Thomson

Book Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Breaking Faith is Maynard F. Thomson's unforgettable novel.

The theft of vital technological information could spell disaster for Zoltec Industries, the world's only producer of high-powered-microprocessor computer chips. Enter tough, smart private detective Nason Nichols, who--joined by Zoltec's top scientist, Dr. Rachel Ornstein--races across New England to disentangle a web of intrigue, deception, scams...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439196672
• ISBN13: 9781439196670
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A thoroughly modern political morality tale set in Boston

If contemporary American urban politics can be mundane and boring, it can also be the setting for compelling fiction, especially when Boston is the setting. In Boston as in Chicago, politics is a contact sport. Maynard Thomson has an excellent eye and ear for this sport, and "Breaking Faith", which involves cops, detectives, Irish pols, and an African-American preacher, reads true. Also included are some central-casting types (suburban liberals. urban firebrands) but Nason ("call me Nase") Nichols, the narrator/private eye, is the main man. It's a terrific read with a not-too-obvious ending that is revealed only in the last few pages.