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Gayle is represented by:
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Here you will find updates about Gayle's eagerly anticipated new
international spy thriller, THE BOOK OF SPIES (St. Martin's Press, April 2010), as well information including quotes, press releases, a short bio, photographs, and images of her recent book jackets. All of this is downloadable for both electronic and print media.

Dear Reviewer:

A member of the Association for Intelligence Officers who once had top secret clearance, Gayle Lynds is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Spymaster, The Coil, Masquerade, Mosaic, and Mesmerized, as well as the coauthor with Robert Ludlum of three bestselling Covert-One novels. The co-founder of International Thriller Writers, she has been called “a master of intrigue and adventure” by Clive Cussler and “one of the premiere espionage writers of our time” by Vince Flynn. The Los Angeles Times has praised her work as “edgy, tricky, very much in the mode of Robert Ludlum,” and The Chicago Tribune has said, “Lynds is superbly gifted…as high octane as they come.” Now, Lynds returns with THE BOOK OF SPIES, a riveting thriller and the beginning of her first series. From Langley’s storied seventh floor to a Pashtun warlord’s critical domain on Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, the tale crosses continents and time.

The world’s most powerful, most wealthy book club, containing only ten men—men who will do anything to achieve their aims and protect their interests. When the CIA discovers a connection between the legendary library and a bank account linked to terrorists, they turn for help to rare books curator Eva Blake, who is in prison for vehicular manslaughter in the death of her husband, and Judd Ryder, a former intelligence agent with a troubled past and his own agenda. Together Judd and Eva embark on an international adventure from London to Rome, Istanbul to Athens. Somehow they must do what no one else has been able to do—find the library and stay alive.

THE BOOK OF SPIES is a heart-pounding novel of espionage and intrigue, as well as a fascinating story about one of history’s most intriguing mysteries—the legendary lost Library of Gold. Packed with unforgettable characters, non-stop action, spellbinding twists and turns, and the highest caliber of thriller writing, Lynds’ latest book is certain to delight her legion of fans. I hope you will bring this riveting new thriller to your readers’ attention.

Sincerely, Joan Higgins
Associate Director of Publicity
646-307-5557

For Immediate Release:

THE BOOK OF SPIES
By Gayle Lynds
St. Martin’s Press Hardcover Fiction
Publication: April 2010
ISBN: 0-312-38089-5
$24.95 ($33.95 Canadian)
6 ¼ " x 9 ¼" / 626 Pages

New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of nine spy novels and has been called the Queen of International Espionage. Her newest, THE BOOK OF SPIES, is the beginning of her first series and introduces museum curator Eva Blake and intelligence operative Judd Ryder.

THE BOOK OF SPIES is being heralded as her best novel yet. It's an exciting contemporary story with a strong historical element: For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatican have tried to locate Ivan the Terrible's magnificent Library of Gold. Now one of the volumes, The Book of Spies, has surfaced, and along with it the secret book club that owns the Library of Gold.
Somehow the CIA must do what no one else has been able to do - find the library and stop the secret book club.

• Audio from Blackstone Audio in both full and unabridged versions, CDs and cassettes
  • Book-of-the-Month Club and Mystery Guild
  
• Foreign rights sold thus far to Bulgaria, Germany, Great Britain, Latvia, and the Netherlands

A Brief Biography

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.