Herbert Gold

Author Herb Gold reflects on the people, places, and events that have shaped his life and explores the evolving times and trends of the twentieth century.

"Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffee shop every morning, occasionally sees a few longtime male friends and vaguely regrets a handful of former female lovers. In the sixties and seventies, Shaper was where the action was (San Francisco, where else?) and joined in the festivities, if moderately. But that was a long time ago.". "There are those who have drug flashbacks, even years after they've been using. Shaper has escaped those, thanks to his moderation. But into his relatively Spartan life now comes a flashback of another kind - a nineteen-year-old daughter whose existence he never suspected. Her mother was an overnight acquaintance whom with some effort he manages, barely, to recall. The daughter's name is Amanda, and her phone call turns Shaper's drab-gray existence into dazzling Technicolor."--BOOK JACKET.

Tracker of lost money and lost souls, the veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages, along his way from the sixties to the nineties, to find Priscilla, the love of his life, only to lose her. Kasdan also finds himself entangled with Karim, the sleek pornographer and drug dealer who insists that only Kasdan is the right person to handle his transfers of cash and drugs. Karim enlists the restless and adventurous Priscilla Kasdan in his enterprise as well. All three - Kasdan, Karim, and Priscilla - want more than what ordinary life can afford them. She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me is the story of the risks of love and age, played out against the turbulence of America's great metropolitan village, where freedom is no more easily come by than anywhere else.

Explores the secret life of this vibrant, volatile, and violent land, Haiti.

Private eye Sid Kasdan digs into in a case involving the importation of young male Haitians being brought to the US as "companions" for rich older men. The novel expertly captures the zeitgeist of the 1970's.

The Prince of North Texas, unhappy because he has everything he wants except friends, finds they aren't so easy to come by.

Gold has written a wonderfully personal memoir/autobiography, hilarious and painful, fascinating and moving, intimate and universal.

A novel of "the price in rage and loneliness of the pursuit of success and individual personality in the new mass-cult America" as a successful African-American college professor turns Black Muslim and robs a bank.