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Gayle Lynds

Gayle Lynds is the award-winning author of eight international espionage novels, including The Last Spymaster, The Coil, Masquerade, and Mesmerized, which are published in some 20 countries. Her books have won numerous awards, including “Novel of the Year” (The Last Spymaster) given by the Military Writers Society of America, People magazine "Page-Turner of the Week" and "Beach Read of the Week." Publishers Weekly lists her work among the top ten spy novels of all time, and called The Last Spymaster a "classic espionage thriller… (that) strikes a perfect balance between the private lives of her characters and the blood and betrayal of their professional adventures.” BookPage concurs: “Gayle Lynds has joined the deified ranks of spy thriller authors like Robert Ludlum and John le Carre.” With Ludlum, she created the Covert-One series. “The Hades Factor” was a CBS miniseries in April 2006. Gayle’s late husband, the noted detective novelist Dennis Lynds, was an Santa Barbara Writers Conference teacher.  Read more about Gayle at www.gaylelinds.com.

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