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Gayle Lynds

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Mystery & Thrillers

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New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of nine spy novels and has been called the Queen of Espionage. Her newest, THE BOOK OF SPIES, is due in stores March 30 and is the beginning of her first series. Lee Child writes she’s “today’s finest espionage writer,” while BookPage claims: “Lynds has joined the deified ranks of spy thriller authors like Robert Ludlum and John le Carre” and the London Observer says simply she’s “a kick-ass thriller writer.”

Gayle began her writing career as a reporter for The Arizona Republic, where her investigative reporting made such an impact that it led to changes in state legislation. Later she was an editor with rare Top Secret security clearance at a government think tank, where asso...more New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of nine spy novels and has been called the Queen of Espionage. Her newest, THE BOOK OF SPIES, is due in stores March 30 and is the beginning of her first series. Lee Child writes she’s “today’s finest espionage writer,” while BookPage claims: “Lynds has joined the deified ranks of spy thriller authors like Robert Ludlum and John le Carre” and the London Observer says simply she’s “a kick-ass thriller writer.”

Gayle began her writing career as a reporter for The Arizona Republic, where her investigative reporting made such an impact that it led to changes in state legislation. Later she was an editor with rare Top Secret security clearance at a government think tank, where assorted shadowy figures passed through silently and not only ideas but people seemed to bounce off the walls. She was inspired. Soon she began writing literary short stories, which were published in literary journals, and at the same time in what some considered schizophrenic, she also wrote male pulp novels in the Nick Carter and Mack Bolan series.

Her first Gayle Lynds novel MASQUERADE, was a New York Times bestseller and a People magazine “Page-Turner of the Week.” Publishers Weekly, the bible of the industry, recently compiled a list of the best espionage fiction. At the top were works by le Carre, Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, and Graham Greene. MASQUERADE was number eight, following Ken Follett’s classic The Eye of the Needle, which Gayle loves.

Others of her novels have been prize winners. THE LAST SPYMASTER won Best Novel from both the American Authors Association and the Military Writers Society of America. THE COIL won Best Contemporary Novel from Affaire de Coeur. MOSAIC was Thriller of the Year at Romantic Times. MESMERIZED was a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist. About her work reviewers have written: “superb,” Chicago Tribune; “immensely satisfying,” Wall Street Journal; “a potent storyteller,” Denver Post; “teeth-grinding suspense,” Publishers Weekly; “roller-coaster thrills,” Los Angeles Times; “terrific,” Cosmopolitan magazine; and “authentic,” Chicago Sun-Times.

With Robert Ludlum, she created the COVERT-ONE series and wrote three of the novels. One of them, THE HADES FACTOR, was a CBS miniseries. Another, THE PARIS OPTION, was People magazine Beach Read of the Week.

A member of the Association for Intelligence Officers, she cofounded International Thriller Writers with David Morrell in 2004. She lives in Southern California with three computers and two opinionated cats.
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Average rating: 3.63 · 7,288 ratings · 691 reviews · 24 distinct works

	The Book of Spies 3.51 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2007 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Last Spymaster 3.71 avg rating — 240 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Masquerade 3.55 avg rating — 142 ratings — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Coil 3.63 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mosaic 3.64 avg rating — 87 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Mesmerized 3.63 avg rating — 51 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Altman Code (Covert-One, #4) by Robert Ludlum, Gayle Lynds 3.68 avg rating — 999 ratings — published 2003 — 31 editions	My rating:
	Altman Code 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings	My rating:
	The Hades Factor (Covert-One #1) by Robert Ludlum, Gayle Lynds 3.76 avg rating — 2,018 ratings — published 1999 — 38 editions	My rating:
	the library of gold 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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