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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  A Conversation With Gayle Lynds *Writers Write -- The IWJ*
Gayle is a former investigative reporter and an editor with Top Secret security clearance at a think tank where her government projects ranged from making deserts bloom to designing cutting-edge military hardware that had the capacity to wipe life from entire continents.
Gayle and her husband, fellow author Dennis Lynds, live in a house overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Gayle talked with us about her journey from being a newspaper reporter to bestselling author, how she created her hot new thriller, Mesmerized, and what it was like to co-write a book with Robert Ludlum.
www.writerswrite.com /journal/may01/lynds.htm   (3062 words)

  
 The Readers Room
Gayle Lynds: The Coil is the sequel to Masquerade, a continuing story of a family of spies and assassins, but also a political thriller.
Gayle Lynds: The intricacy, I suppose, is due to all of the research.
Gayle, I would like to move on to the entire genre of spy fiction, and the "re-birth" that it has been undergoing recently.
www.readersroom.com /coffee32.html   (2784 words)

  
 Review | The Coil by Gayle Lynds
In order to survive, Liz is forced to plunge back into that shadowy world, relying on all of her savvy and rusty skills as an operative in order to protect herself and those she cares about.
One distinctly refreshing aspect of Lynds' writing is that she uses fewer of the swift reversals, baseless double-crosses and improbable coincidences that have long been seemingly necessary, but often distracting, elements of the thriller.
As a former U.S. government think-tanker with a Top Secret security clearance, Lynds knows enough about the shadowy world that her characters inhabit to ensure that her stories have, at the very least, the semblance of veracity.
www.januarymagazine.com /crfiction/thecoil.html   (1113 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Coil : A Novel: Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gayle Lynds not only grew up reading Robert Ludlum but also collaborated with him on three novels before his death in 2001.
Lynds, however, manages to build on the work of her collaborator, updating his basic formulae for modern audiences.
Fans of espionage novels know Gayle Lynds primarily for her excellent collaborative work with the late Robert Ludlum on the Covert One series of novels, such as THE HADES FACTOR and THE ALTMAN CODE.
www.amazon.ca /Coil-Novel-Gayle-Lynds/dp/0312301448   (2347 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Mesmerized: Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As Gayle Lynds's third solo mystery-thriller opens, hotshot D.C. attorney Beth Convey is sewing up the biggest case of her career.
Lynds (Mosaic) develops this entertaining premise into a hit-or-miss espionage thriller, pitting Russian assassins against two wrongfully accused fugitives.
Gayle Lynd's exploration of this interesting medical phenomen while developing characters and a plot that rivets you to each page shows why Robert Ludlum collaborated with her to produce his last books.
www.amazon.ca /Mesmerized-Gayle-Lynds/dp/0671024078   (1495 words)

  
 Lynds_Gayle_ia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gayle Lynds was born on June 23 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Lynds married fellow author Dennis Lynds and has a daughter, Julia Stone, a son, Paul Stone, and two stepdaughters, Deirdre and Kate Lynds.
When Lynds tried to publish her book, Masquerade, it was rejected because a publisher in New York said, "no woman could ever have written this." It was published and she is presently working on her third thriller.
www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/lynds_gayle_ia.htm   (206 words)

  
 G.H. Stone, Gayle Lynds Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lynds currently writes for adult audiences; her most recent book was "Masquerade," which was a Doubleday lead fiction title in February, 1996.  People magazine named it "page turner of the week".
Lynds for her time and assistance in helping us with compiling background and bibliographic information for our upcoming 3Is bibliography/reference/history.
Lynds' upcoming book, "Marionette," which she is completing right now.
www.threeinvestigatorsbooks.homestead.com /Lynds2.html   (1005 words)

  
 Author's Summer Reading List - Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is the author of Masquerade, Mosaic, and Mesmerized, and coauthor with Robert Ludlum of The Hades Factor and The Paris Option.
In addition to her American fans, Gayle's novels are published in some 20 other countries.
In that capacity, she worked with projects ranging from making deserts bloom to designing cutting-edge military hardware that had the capacity to wipe life from entire continents.
www.authorsontheweb.com /features/summer02/lynds.asp   (482 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mesmerized: Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Gayle Lynds has given us an intriguing mix of genres rolled up into one explosive package...a taunt legal drama and medical/espionage thriller with hefty doses of psychological suspense thrown into the mix.
Gayle Lynds is a master researcher and storyteller.
Gayle Lynds is a good story teller and works a fast paced thriller like a master.
www.amazon.com /Mesmerized-Gayle-Lynds/dp/0671024078   (2336 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Mosaic: English Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lynds (Masquerade) writes splendid action scenes, but though she expertly rides the roller coaster of Julia's alternately blind and seeing states, the off-again on-again affliction is hard to believe.
I felt Lynds threw too much at me at once and I was ready to put this back on the shelf for another time (I don't handle overwhelm very well!).
Lynds writes so vividly that reading her books is like watching a movie in your mind.
www.amazon.de /Mosaic-Gayle-Lynds/dp/067102406X   (1429 words)

  
 Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Gayle Lynds
A former magazine editor and newspaper reporter, Lynds had a first-hand taste of the world about which she writes when she was an editor at a private-industry think tank where she held top-secret security clearance.
Gayle Lynds had already established herself as an author-to-watch in what has traditionally been a male-dominated genre.
In an interview with Bookreporter.com's Ann Bruns, Gayle reveals some fascinating background about the influx of Russian KGB in the US, the scary state of our counterintelligence agencies, and some insight into a little known medical phenomena called cellular memory.
www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-lynds-gayle.asp   (6914 words)

  
 Gayle Lynds speaks to Ali Karim for Shots Ezine, Part 1
I was fortunate to attend a writing seminar which was opened by Gayle Lynds at Bouchercon 34 in Las Vegas last year.
Gayle kindly agreed to talk to Shots Ezine about her work and the thriller genre.
This serendipity was due to my husband-to-be, Dennis Lynds, aka Michael Collins, who signed the contracts and created the outlines for two Nick Carter novels, which I then wrote.
www.shotsmag.co.uk /shots22/intvus_22/lynds1.html   (2520 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Masquerade: Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lynds, whose background includes journalism and high-level involvement with international security, makes her amnesia victim, Liz Sansborough, a poignant and recognizable character.
It would not be hyperbole to say that Gayle Lynds has written a novel that feels like a race to find out who Liz Sansborough is and why these men are trying to kill/capture her.
Lynds has made some strides in breaking away from simply aping Robert Ludlum's style, but this book has a little too much going on.
www.amazon.com /Masquerade-Gayle-Lynds/dp/0312986033   (2094 words)

  
 GAYLE LYNDS - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
Gayle Lynds broke the gender barrier with her bestselling espionage thrillers.
So strong was her writing that Robert Ludlum picked Gayle Lynds to be his co-author and to pick up his mantle as a leading writer of the genre.
Lynds began writing with a Santa Barbara magazine and published eleven pulp fiction novels under male pen names.
www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/lynds/lynds.htm   (120 words)

  
 Welcome to the official website of New York Times Bestselling Author GAYLE LYNDS
Correctly answer four questions about Gayle's exciting new spy thriller, The Last Spymaster, and you'll have a chance to win unique prizes, and to be entered into a grand prize drawing for your very own spy legend kit, including a spy bag, identity kit, passport holder and other one-of-a-kind items
Just sign Gayle's guestbook by June 1, 2007, and fill out the comments box, swearing you don't mind who you end up being — hero or villain, walk-on or long-running secondary character, or even a mangled corpse.
Gayle will pick one or two names herself and let you know so you can have a chance to change your mind.
www.gaylelynds.com   (1010 words)

  
 Gayle Lynds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Later, she was an editor with Top Secret security clearance at a government think tank.
Her fiction career began with literary short stories published under her own name and several pulp fiction novels under male pseudonyms such as G.H. Stone, Gayle Stone, Nick Carter, and Don Pendleton.
Gayle Lynds was the first author to be featured by The Internet Book Database in June 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gayle_Lynds   (359 words)

  
 The Best Reviews: Gayle Lynds, The Coil Review
Liz Sansborough, whose dead father was the infamous assassin called the Carnivore, has built a new life for herself after leaving the CIA as a field agent.
Now if Liz is to save Sarah, she must somehow resurrect her old tradecraft skills and, in a desperate hunt across two continents, locate the files and uncover a dark and dangerous conspiracy linked to a shadowy group known only as the Coil.
Now with The Coil, the sequel to Masquerade, Gayle Lynds is at the very top of her form, proving herself one of the finest writers in the field today.
thebestreviews.com /review19400   (461 words)

  
 Bookbug on the Web - Reviews: Jenny Lykins, Gayle Lynds
Lynds, Gayle - MASQUERADE  (Berkley - 1997) (4)
Julia Austrian is a concert pianist, who ten years earlier...on the night of her debut, became blind.
Gayle Lynds has the ability to push the reader's emotional buttons by weaving a tender love story in the midst of betrayal, greed and violence.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/8078/bookbuzz-l06.html   (779 words)

  
 Bestselling Author Gayle Lynds Releases High-Action Espionage Thriller, "The Last Spymaster"
This latest effort cements Gayle Lynds’ reputation as one of the premier espionage authors of our time.
Founded in October 2004 at a meeting called by Gayle Lynds and David Morrell at the Bouchercon World Suspense Conference, ITW has grown quickly into an industry force.
The association’s first anthology, thriller, which Lynds conceived, will be published May 30, followed immediately by "The Last Spymaster", then by the world’s first international thriller convention, ITW’s ThrillerFest.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/6/prweb393432.htm   (710 words)

  
 eReader.com: Author: Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds is the coauthor of two Covert-One novels—The Hades Factor and The Paris Option,—as well as several bestselling thrillers on her own: Masquerade, Mosaic, Mesmerized, and The Coil.
A former newspaper reporter and magazine editor, Lynds also worked at a think tank where she had a top-secret security clearance.
Notify me when new books by Gayle Lynds are released.
www.ereader.com /author/detail/1503?author=Gayle_Lynds   (69 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Last Spymaster: Books: Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In THE LAST SPYMASTER, Gayle Lynds' riveting suspense embedded with literary finesse eclipses thriller stars John Le Carre and Robert Ludlum at the peak of their form.
Instead, with a keen journalist's nose for truth, she relentlessly sniffs out the corruptive realities existing inside the covert catacombs of international intelligence, while keeping her eye on the ultimate sacrifices and dedication of those who serve to protect us.
As Gayle explains in a Question and Answer dialogue with readers, "Holding on to one's ideals while working for a better world is the most difficult personal challenge.
www.amazon.co.uk /Last-Spymaster-Gayle-Lynds/dp/0312301596   (911 words)

  
 Gayle Lynds speaks to Ali Karim for Shots Ezine, Part 2
But when I finished the manuscript, I again ran into tired sexism: She told me, “Boys won’t read books written by girls.” She gave me the choice of the book’s not being published or of hiding my female identity behind initials.
At the time, I was writing as Gayle Stone, since it was my name while married to my first husband, and I hadn’t bothered to change it yet.
I wanted to write for the series, and I was fed up with fighting the silliness of sexism, so for the three books I wrote in the series, I became G.H. Stone.
www.shotsmag.co.uk /shots22/intvus_22/lynds2.html   (3703 words)

  
 Mosaic by Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds' national bestseller Masquerade was the most celebrated international suspense debut in years.
While giving a gala performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, blind concert pianist Julia Austrian's sight returns as mysteriously as it disappeared ten years earlier when she was struck by a little-known psychological disorder.
On the run, hunted and hated, the young couple races against time to piece together the seemingly random acts that form a vast and terrifying puzzle.
www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /l/gayle-lynds/mosaic.htm   (446 words)

  
 NCW--What the Critics Say About Gayle Lynds
Gayle Lynds delivers a modern-day spy story of passion and treachery, packed with authentic detail, politics, history, and romance.
Praised by writers from Clive Cussler to Sue Grafton, Gayle Lynds has emerged as a leading star of suspense fiction.
While giving a gala performance at London's Royal Albert Hall, blind concert-pianist Julia Austrian's sight returns as mysteriously as it disappeared ten years earlier when she was struck by a rare psychological disorder.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /Ncw/lyndcrit.htm   (1399 words)

  
 MESMERIZED by Gayle Lynds 
In the genre of spy thrillers, Gayle Lynds is Ian Fleming in a skirt and high heels.
With the help of hunky Jeff Hammond, a reporter for the Washington Post with ties to the FBI, Beth sees the dark side of foreign policy, finds an inner strength she never knew she possessed, and falls in love.
Lynds spins this tale of romance and intrigue like the pro that she is. Smoothly written and fast-paced, readers will be MESMERIZED from start to finish.
www.myshelf.com /mystery/01/mesmerized.htm   (206 words)

  
 THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Mesmerized by Gayle Lynds
Author Gayle Lynds’ style has been compared to the late Robert Ludlum’s, and she co-authored a thriller with him (The Hades Factor).
And, of course, there’s the seemingly interminable length as the story line hustles from one crisis to the next.
This is a tried and true formula; one that has kept a multitude of readers engrossed to the final page.
www.themysteryreader.com /lynds-mesmerized.html   (501 words)

  
 Orange Book Haven. Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option, Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds (A Covert-One Novel)(Large Print)
For 30 years, Robert Ludlum's novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense.
One of my favorite aspects of a Ludlum novel is the intricate intrigue he creates.
I don't know how much of this is Ludlum, and how much is Lynds, but it's one heck of a terrific entwining of villains and maybe-villains.
www.orangebookhaven.com /pd_robert.cfm   (631 words)

  
 Book Review of The Last Spymaster Gayle Lynds
The clock ticks as Elaine Cunningham attempts to lead Tice into a trap while staying clear of Ghranditti's hounds and agents from within the CIA who are intent on killing her.
Like the beginning moments of Three Days of the Condor, Gayle Lynds seems to follow a tried and true formula.
Lynds keeps the pressure on, allowing only a few minutes' breathing space before beginning a chase that becomes more and more breathless and convoluted.
thecelebritycafe.com /books/full_review/597.html   (418 words)

  
 NCW--Gayle Lynds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, and raised in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Novelist GAYLE LYNDS graduated from the University of Iowa with a degree in journalism and a minor in social studies.
She was a reporter for the Arizona Republic in Phoenix, editor-in-chief of Santa Barbara magazine in California, and an editor with top-secret security clearance at General Electric — TEMPO, a large, private-industry think tank in Santa Barbara, with clients around the world, including the US Department of Defense and the US military.
She still lives in Santa Barbara, with her husband, fellow author Dennis Lynds (AKA Michael Collins), three geriatric cats, and an ancient apricot tree.
mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/lynds.htm   (106 words)

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