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The Guardians
"Andrew Pyper's THE GUARDIANS is everything you could ask for in a thriller. It's psychologically unnerving, moves like a bullet, and is fraught with so much tension you might crack a tooth reading it. Outstanding in every way."
-Dennis Lehane, bestselling author of Mystic River
"Like any good haunting, THE GUARDIANS is at first just a whisper in your ear, a dark form in the window across the street. Then page by page, with the patience and skill of a true master, Andrew Pyper ratchets up the tension, the suspense, the fear until you find yourself white-knuckled and breathless. Andrew Pyper is the rare writer who has it all; he's a poet, a magician, and a seer into the frail human heart. In this moving, utterly gripping, and gorgeously written novel, he brings all his formidable talents to bear. Don't miss it."
-Lisa Unger, bestselling author of Die For You and Beautiful Lies
"A splendidly eerie haunted house story, and a superb evocation of small town life. The Guardians gripped me from its opening line and never let go."
-John Connolly, bestselling author of Every Dead Thing and The Lovers
"The Guardians is a chilling, screw-tightening ghost story for grownups—it vibrates with menace while delving into the deep, dark matters of loyalty, lust and our own natural, nasty inclinations. A thriller with brains, heart, and no small amount of goosebumps."
-Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Dark Places and Sharp Objects
The Guardians is, at its heart, a haunted house story. But the Thurman house is not built on an Indian burial ground nor was it host to ancient Satanic rituals. It is merely empty, an inviting, secret place for the teenaged boys of small town Grimshaw to enact their clandestine (if mostly harmless) desires. It is the actions four of these boys take over the winter of 1984 that haunt them upon their reluctant return twenty-four years later on the occasion of one of the four’s suicide – the only one of them to stay on in town, obsessively keeping watch over the Thurman house for something he believed was awaiting an opportunity for escape.
The Guardians is an intense exploration of male friendship under the pressures of violence and suspicion along with a contemporary, psychologically astute revisitation of the haunted house story. Both moving and horrifying, it explores the secrets of boys and men and the darkest corner of their hearts that must be guarded against.
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- Doubleday Canada, Spring 2011
- Orion, UK, Spring 2011
- Ambo/Anthos, The Netherlands
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Andrew Pyper is the award-winning author of four internationally bestselling novels. Lost Girls (2000), won the Arthur Ellis Award, was selected as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and appeared on the New York Times and Times (UK) bestseller lists. The Trade Mission (2002) was chosen by The Toronto Star as one of the Ten Best Books of the Year, and The Wildfire Season (2005) was a Globe and Mail Best Book. Most recently, The Killing Circle (2009) was a New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year. His forthcoming book, The Guardians, will be published worldwide in the spring of 2011.
Of Pyper’s five completed novels, four are in active development for feature film. He is attached as screenwriter to Lost Girls, which is being developed with producer Steve Hoban (Ginger Snaps, the forthcoming Splice starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley). The Wildfire Season is under option to producer Chris Moore (Good Will Hunting, American Pie, the upcoming The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon), and The Killing Circle is set to go into pre-production for producer Charles Steel (Oscar-winning The Last King of Scotland) with Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl) attached to direct. The Guardians, Andrew’s new book, is already under option with producer Dan Levine, former VP of Production at Paramount.
In addition to his novels and film projects, Andrew is co-creator of The Creeps, a horror anthology television series in development at Space.
Andrew Pyper holds an Honours B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from McGill University, as well as a law degree from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto.
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