J. Conrad Guest's Blog – May 2011 Archive (3)

“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.”

Only one man could’ve written the sentence above: Raymond Chandler. It was from an essay that appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in November 1945.



Raymond Chandler has been called one of the greatest stylists of the twenty-first century. Who am I to argue? I love this man’s prose.



From The Long Goodbye: “Alcohol is like love,” he said. “The first kiss is magic, the… Continue

Failing to enter World War II in time to help the Allies defeat the advancing German forces, the U.S. tragically allows Hitler’s brutal empire to rise and rule the world. After years of oppression and systematic genocide, a rebellious faction of Hitler detractors hatches a plot to go back in time and alter the course of future history. Their main objective? To draw the U.S. into WWII, thereby aborting Hitler’s sinister plans before they even have the chance to be born. The unlikely key to…

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One Hot January

Author: J. Conrad Guest

Publisher: Second Wind Publishing

ISBN: 978-1-935171-31-7

Binding: Trade Paper

250 pages

Price: $15.50



NORTHVILLE, MI—One Hot January is the second novel in the last year from Michigan writer J. Conrad Guest. The first of a science fiction/alternate reality diptych, the premise is based on a theory that Winston Churchill and…

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