Author Discussion – “The Ruins” with Steve Wick

Nest on Main is pleased to welcome Long Island Journalist & Author, Steve Wick, to hear him speak about the writing and inspiration behind his book “The Ruins”.

Steve will be signing the books for all attendees.

Additional books will be available for purchase at the event and can also be signed.

Ticket Options:

Option 1: $38.95 per ticket: Your ticket includes admission and one copy of Steve Wick’s book entitled “The Ruins”, as well as a donation to the Peconic Land Trust.

Option 2: $10 per ticket (Please bring your book with you if you want it signed by the author.) Your ticket is for admission only – BOOK NOT INCLUDED. This option is for those have already purchased a copy of this book. Ticket includes a donation to the Peconic Land Trust.

THE RUINS

On a fall night in 1954, in working-class Lindenhurst, Long Island, a woman goes alone to a bar filled with German speakers who’ve finished their shifts at different jobs—some at a groundbreaking new project run by a man named Leavitt. They are gathered to listen to the first game of the World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians at the Polo Grounds. But Lindenhurst’s new chief of police, Paul Beirne, can’t think about baseball. Still struggling with the demons from his time as a POW in Japan during the war, he gets the call that a woman’s mutilated body is found in a field north of Lindenhurst, near where a new cemetery is being constructed to accommodate the growing suburbs. There hasn’t been a murder in the village in decades, and on top of this horrific crime, there is a suspicious accident on the railroad tracks. Paul turns to his friend Doc, a Holocaust survivor and who, like Paul, suffers from the horrors of his past.

But Paul has personal horrors, too, that are outside the purview of war. Or so he thinks. In stark contrast to the whitewashed ideal Leavitt and others in Lindenhurst are trying to create, an evil has taken root. What Paul and Doc uncover will lead Paul to another murder, one committed two decades before, as past and present, family and world war, collide in this intense and thrilling debut from a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

The Ruins by Steve Wick Pegasus Crime | Hardcover |

“Veteran investigative reporter Steve Wick’s fiction debut explodes with ripped from recent headlines about icons and ignored American history that will blow your mind. This multi-leveled, multi-generational crime and espionage story keeps readers guessing right up until the final pages and leaves them with fresh questions about how we all got here.” —James Grady, author of Six Days of the Condor and The Smoke in Our Eyes

“Wick’s first novel uses a horrific murder in a quiet Long Island village to rip the lid off a series of outrages, fictional and not, in the past. Readers will appreciate Wick’s explosive plotting and extensive historical research. A shattering journey from Lindenhurst to Lindbergh.” —Kirkus Reviews

“In the debut novel from biographer Wick (The Long Night), former POW Paul Beirne unearths an insidious conspiracy on Long Island. The action in The Ruins brims with fascinating insight about the Nazis’ presence in the U.S. and the shifting cultural climate of the 1950s.” —Publishers Weekly