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.
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…