- Hardcover: 419 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday (Jan 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385479611
- ISBN-13: 978-0385479615
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,787,420 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Liz Sansborough wakes up one morning in a house she doesn't know, with a man she doesn't know, unable to remember her own name or anything that has ever happened to her. Already terrified, she is almost instantly plunged into incredible danger -- and discovers that she's a crack shot and a CIA employee. She must navigate through a world of corrupt secret agents, international terrorism, and mind-altering drugs without knowing who her enemies are or what the truth is.
From Publishers Weekly
The publisher's claim that Lynds will be the "first bestselling female author of international suspense" is hollow-and a bit surprising, given that at least one bestselling female author of international suspense, Linda Davies (whose Wilderness of Mirrors is reviewed below), is a fellow Doubleday writer. But Lynds does an admirable job in her debut novel of aping some of the top male international suspense writers of our era, especially early Ludlum, as she tosses into a swiftly moving narrative stream a vast and dangerous conspiracy, an array of improbable coincidences, several rogue government agents, a legendary international assassin (the "Carnivore") and a nearly friendless innocent caught in the middle of it all. Amnesiac Liz Scarsborough awakens to a house and husband she can't remember, to be told that she's an ex-CIA agent who has been living in hiding from the Carnivore. Liz believes that story for only a little longer than readers will, and she soon finds herself on the run from a gallery of threatening figures, heading for Paris in the company of a very neatly introduced fellow agent and incipient love interest. The resourceful heroine is captured but escapes, is recaptured but escapes again, in a dizzying sequence of action scenes that eventually involves a doppelganger, mind-bending drugs and brainwashing. Thriller fans may not find plausibility in Lynds's first, but they certainly will find the sort of teeth-grinding suspense that they crave. Major ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining,
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This review is from: Masquerade (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this novel entertaining and well written with plenty of mystery and several plot twists. It has a disturbing link to recent headlines such as psychological conditioning and mind control, also some financial and international currency manipulations involving people in power and corruption at all levels.
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Read This Book,
By jrivard@eci.com (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Masquerade (Paperback)
I am a sucker for amnesia stories, because the premise of the main character having to find out who (s)he is promises suspense, which is why I read. But often I find that these stories don't deliver up to my expectations.Masquerade is hands down the BEST amnesia story I've ever read. It starts out fast and speeds up. It held my interest from beginning to end and kept me guessing - sometimes correctly and sometimes not - throughout. When I read a book this good, I latch onto that writer and want to read everything by them. Usually it turns out they have a dozen other books, so I can catch up. I was both impressed and disappointed to find that Masquerade is a first novel. I hope Ms. Lynds decides to keep writing - I want more!
1.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible....,
By Jen (Costa Mesa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Masquerade (Mass Market Paperback)
I look for suspense novels with female protagonists, so I was excited to find Masquerade. After reading it for a while I became increasingly disappointed. The writing was at best pedestrian, but that's often to be expected in a mass marketed book. More disappointing was the plot that was predictable from a mile away. I kept reading, hoping there would be a twist at some point that I wasn't expecting, but my hopes were crushed. The book was incredibly formulaic, right down to the requisite scene with the characters lustfully ripping each other's clothes off for a night of passion.The book was just plain dumb. Spend your money elsewhere.
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