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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… gripping insider views, nonstop pacing, and a cliffhanger ending… Fascinating!
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…
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… chock full of chills, thrills, and breath-taking adventure. Fueled by fascinating characters and rich details from Londinium in 83 A.D., this unforgettable tale brings the past eerily alive while leaving you hungering for the next book in what surely will be an exciting series. Stanley is a terrific writer.
“Action-packed and full of taut suspense, SWORD OF GOD crosses continents in a world-class adventure that will keep you guessing, chuckling, terrified, and utterly riveted. Go into lock-down mode. You won’t want to leave your favorite chair until you’ve finished this terrific tale.”
City of War balances brutal murder, fascinating mystery, and unforgettable characters on a knife’s edge of exciting suspense . Russell writes with the clear eye of an astute observer of human nature and the sweet soul of a poet. From Los Angeles to London, Corsica to Washington, D.C., this novel is larger than life.
A bullet-fast pace, fascinating insider information, and quirky, unforgettable characters raise this legal thriller to first in its class. Hosp is a master of tradecraft and suspense.
Wanna Get Lucky? sizzles. It beguiles and surprises. It’s belly-laugh funny. And that’s just the beginning. Add in terrific characters, crimes to die for, the ka-ching of high-stakes casinos, and Laura-Ashley—decorated bordellos, and you have a read that’s utterly irresistible from first page to last.
This exciting tale of past lives and current deeds is remarkable. M.J. Rose has created her own literary sub genre, a feat seldom accomplished. If you’re not constrained by ordinary reality, love a terrific story, and want to read about unforgettable characters, you’re in a for a great ride with The Hypnotist.
This ground-breaking novel has captured the imaginations of readers for decades, and with good reason. It’s a paragon of suspense, character development, and fascinating period detail. If you want to read just one book about political France in the 1960s, just one book about a lone assassin, just one book that is at the same time beautifully written, this is the book for you.
From thrilling plot to lyrical prose, Laurie R. King’s The God of the Hive is a spectacular finale to the unforgettable The Language of Bees. With nearly a continent separating them in this tale, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes take on a foe so powerful he has nearly eliminated not only their family but them. Without a doubt, King is the master of Sherlockian authors.

