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A good thriller | Masquerade | Gayle Lynds

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	• Masquerade Gayle Lynds St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2004 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A little confusing

Lynds has made some strides in breaking away from simply aping Robert Ludlum's style, but this book has a little too much going on. While it's an entertaining read and does advance Lynds' universe, the plot becomes a bit confusing at times. It would also be nice to have a little more realism as it's hard to believe that the same character can overcome impossible odds quite so often.

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Whats funny is that while I was reading Masquerade I was telling my wife and kids about it.. They thought it sounded too crazy or weird to bother with. Then last week when the boat ran out of gas I went for gas and left them in the boat for an hour. Well my wife picked up Gayle's book and started reading the book out loud to the kids, and they were mesmerized, no pun intended. My wife kept the book from me and finished it before I got it back. I first read the last spymaster then ordered every Gayle Lynds book on Amazon. I'm still reading. My wife incidently has never read any kind of "spy" novel and she doesnt dare start another. Rodney Koop

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A good thriller

I like the plot. It was multi-layered with lots of twists and turns. The characters have believable developments through out the course of the story. The only thing I don't like is the pacing of the story. The beginning was not focused enough. Too many sub-plots floating around, which drags the story too much. I didn't really get into it until I get into the second-half of the story.

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Spies, Lies, Twists and Double Crosses, Plenty Action Too

Is she a rogue CIA agent or an innocent reporter? Is she Liz or is she Sarah? Why doesn't she remember her furniture, her crooked finger, her lover? What is wrong with her? Amnesia caused by brain fever as a result of an accident, or is it something more, something to do with the pills she's being fed everyday? These are the questions Liz Sansborough has to find the answers to if she's going to survive.

When she wakes without her memory, Gordon Tate, her lover, tells her about an accident and the amnesia. He feeds her a pill, tells her it's an antidepressant. He tells her she's going to be better soon. Just as she starts to feel safe and thinks maybe she really will get her memory back, two men break into her home, guns blazing. Suddenly Gordon has a gun and he's shooting. He tosses her a gun too and to her amazement and horror, it feels familiar and all of a sudden she's shooting as well. She kills one of the intruders just as more men break in. Good guys this time it seems. They take her to a safe house and then fill her in on her memory blanks.

They tell her she's a CIA agent and the only living person who had ever seen the face of the international assassin the Carnivore and, because of that, the assassin is determined to see her dead. She is confused. The CIA tells her they will protect her and they send her to the Ranch in Colorado, a CIA field agent training school, to hone up the skills she can no longer remember. However during the training she secretly stops taking the antidepressants and gradually other memories, memories that shouldn't belong to her, sneak into her mind, causing doubt after doubt. She voices these doubts to Gordon and he turns mean and now Liz knows she has to get away.

And that's just the beginning of this woman in peril thriller that will have you guessing as the story takes one unexpected turn after another, so many remarkable twists in the plot that you'll feel the fall as the rollercoaster races downward at the speed of light, then you'll grab a breath as it starts upward again, then a sharp turn, and still another.

Big praise from me for MASQUERADE. It's an international thriller of the type that Robert Ludlum used to write fifteen years ago, full of enough spies, lies, twists and double crosses to take your breath away and to keep you glued to your chair until you finish the book.

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When you gaze into the mirror--and find a stranger looking back? Liz Sansborough has no recollection of her past as a CIA agent; no idea what her future holds. For her, there is only the present...and the chilling knowledge that the world's most lethal assassin has set his sights on her.

When your only link to your identity is a stranger who claim to be lover? Gordon is so gentle, so loving--and so secretive. If Liz dares to put her life into his powerful hands, will he guard it with his own--or snuff it out?

When violence explodes around you, when nothing makes sense, when nobody--including you--is whom he or she appears to be? As Liz unravels a series of lies, she begins to suspect that the truth she encounters might be far more sinister--and deadly--than the original deception...

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