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3.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining, Aug 27 2007

By	Toni Osborne "The Way I See It" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews (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 out of 5 stars Terrible...., Jun 5 2004

By	Jen "just keep reading!" (Costa Mesa, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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 out of 5 stars Lynds takes a well used plot device and makes it her own, May 24 2004

By	Joe Sherry (Minnesota) - See all my reviews (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 out of 5 stars 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

Published on April 1 2004 by Alan M. Wells

5.0 out of 5 stars She must've learned a lot from Robert Ludlum.
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Published on Mar 5 2004 by Brad Cooper

5.0 out of 5 stars (4 1/2) A Hard To Put Down Ludlumesque Thriller
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Published on Mar 4 2004 by Tucker Andersen

5.0 out of 5 stars 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