New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of several thrillers including The Book of Spies, The Last Spymaster, and Masquerade. With Robert Ludlum she created the Covert-One series and wrote three of the books. One of them, The Hades Factor, was made into a CBS miniseries. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she had a varied career including stints as a reporter and as an editor at a think tank where she had Top Secret security clearance. She is cofounder with David Morrell of International Thriller Writers (ITW), is a member of the Association for Intelligence Officers, and is listed in Who’s Who in the World. She lives in Maine and California.
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For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible’s magnificent Library of Gold — a long-missing archive containing gold-covered, bejeweled books dating all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Now one of the volumes, "The Book of Spies, " has surfaced, and along with it…
“Watchlist” is a unique collaboration by twenty-one of the world’s greatest thriller writers including Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, S.J. Rozan, Lisa Scottoline, and Jeffery Deaver, who conceived the characters and set the plot in motion; In turn, the other authors each wrote a chapter and Deaver then complete…
Praised by writers from Clive Cussler to Sue Grafton, Gayle Lynds has emerged as a leading star of suspense fiction. Her bestselling debut novel “Masquerade” was hailed as “gloriously paranoid, immensely satisfying” “(The Los Angeles Times).” Now Lynds brings the international thriller to an electrifying new level with …
As chief of the CIA’s elite Clandestine Services, Jay Tice was a legend throughout the world of international intelligence. But secretly he was also a traitor, selling information that would compromise the security of the United States for decades to come. Since his treachery was exposed, Tice has been kept under strict…
In “Mesmerized,” Gayle Lynds delivers a modern-day story of passion and treachery, packed with authentic detail, politics, history, and romance. From the corridors of the FBI’s Hoover building to the dangerous streets of the new Moscow, “Mesmerized” will take you on the roller-coaster ride of a lifetime, climaxing in a …
When you gaze into the mirror—and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present…and the chilling knowledge that the world’s most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.
When your only link to your …
A sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, Masquerade, The Coil picks up several years later. Liz Sansborough, former CIA agent and now an academic, has managed to put the pieces of her life back together. But Sansborough has a dark secret – she is the daughter of the one of the most notorious Cold War Assassins,…
Covert-One agent Jon Smith is sent to rendezvous in Taiwan with another agent who has acquired the ship’s true manifest. But before Smith can get the document, he is ambushed, the second agent is murdered, and the evidence is destroyed. Smith escapes with only his life and a verbal message: The President’s biological fa…
An unknown doomsday virus quickly claims the lives of four people across the country— including Dr. Sophia Russell, a researcher leading the team trying to crack the disease. Devastated and enraged, her fiance, Lt. Colonel Jonathan Smith, uncovers evidence that his lover’s death was no accident— that someone out there…
The Pasteur Institute, Paris. A bomb explodes, a fire rages, and a renowned computer scientist is dead. Dr. Emile Chambord had been working on a molecular DNA computer that could virtually control all computerized operations around the globe. Now, his groundbreaking research is missing. Overnight, military satellites an…

