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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.

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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.
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3.0�toiles sur 5 Entertaining, Ao� 27 2007

Par	Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires (TOP 100 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Masquerade: When the Truth is Too Dangerous to Trust (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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1.0�toiles sur 5 Terrible...., Jui 5 2004

Par	Jen "just keep reading!" (Costa Mesa, CA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Masquerade: When the Truth is Too Dangerous to Trust (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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4.0�toiles sur 5 Lynds takes a well used plot device and makes it her own, Mai 24 2004

Par	Joe Sherry (Minnesota) - Voir tous mes commentaires (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Masquerade: When the Truth is Too Dangerous to Trust (Mass Market Paperback)

It was interesting reading "Masquerade" after Gayle Lynds' latest novel "The Coil". What makes it interesting was that "The Coil" was the sequel "Masquerade" and followed some of the same characters that we first meet in "Masquerade". Knowing who the characters are in the second book changed how I viewed them in the first book. This knowledge actually made things more confusing because things did not at first add up. "Masquerade" marked Lynds' first steps into the international spy novel genre, and she gives us a strong, fresh entry.

The idea of a character having amnesia and having to figure out who she (or he) is has been done before in the spy genre (most notably with Ludlum's "Bourne Identity"), but this is the starting point for "Masquerade". Liz Sansborough has no memory of who she was or what she did. All she knows is that a man named Gordon Taite claims to have been her lover and that Liz is a former CIA agent. Gordon claims to be trying to protect her, and he seems honest, but Liz feels that Gordon is hiding the truth from her. Can she believe him? Was she really a CIA agent? Who is she?

With violence and these questions, we are jumpstarted into "Masquerade". 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. This is fast paced espionage action with a high body count, and it is an engaging novel all the way through. It seems like a simple enough story at the beginning, but as Liz learns more about who she is and why she is being hunted, the scope of the story expands in ways the reader never expected (or, in ways I never expected). Reading "The Coil" first did not lessen the impact of "Masquerade" in any way, but rather it added to the challenge of piecing together bits of the story and what I knew about the characters in "The Coil". I may not read many espionage novels, but I know an entertaining, well written story when I see one.

-Joe Sherry

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Wonderfully compelling and action packed
Think of the reactions that you might have if you realized that part of your memory was gone - via a mind/personality-altering chemical - and that you were suddenly facing daily... Read more

Publi� le Avril 1 2004 par Alan M. Wells

5.0�toiles sur 5 She must've learned a lot from Robert Ludlum.
The International Thriller genre has historically been dominated my male writers (some of my favorite authors as a matter of fact). Read more

Publi� le Mars 5 2004 par Brad Cooper

5.0�toiles sur 5 (4 1/2) A Hard To Put Down Ludlumesque Thriller
The novelist Gayle Lynds comes highly recommended by none other than the best selling thriller author of all time, Robert Ludlum. Read more

Publi� le Mars 4 2004 par Tucker Andersen

5.0�toiles sur 5 Dynamite, fresh ... you've got to read this book!
In the scheme of things, I want a book to excite me, teach me, and when it's all over, make me want to read it again, because it's that good. Read more