The Last Spymaster
Gayle Lynds
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2006 St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312301596

A Cold War icon in the world of intelligence escapes from a maximum security US federal prison.

After a computer analysis program pointed to Jay Tice, a legendary veteran spymaster, as the top-ranking mole in the CIA, he was arrested & sentenced to life in a corrections facility. One morning, the guards find a dummy in his bunk, & Tice is long gone.

Enter top CIA hunter, Elaine Cunningham, who's assigned to track Tice down, & then step out of the way so The Company can recapture him, & get all the glory. Naturally, when cavorting with covert cohorts, all is not what it seems & after Cunningham zeroes in on her target, the tables turn & her quarry starts hunting her.

What Clive Cussler did to revive adventure tales, Gayle Lynds has done for the espionage yarn. She packs her pages with taut action, tons of insider clues & an arsenal of hair-raising violence.

The Spymaster is a thoroughly thrilling tale on an international scale with a broad sweep of historical perspective. It's also full of sleights-of-hand that are exciting as well as inexplicable. Still, that's the fun of these types of rip-snorting, hypersonic, hellbent action stories that have you reading long, long after you've got your jammies on!

Her best so far!

Gayle Lynds is a former “think tank” editor with Top Secret clearance. She is also a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Operatives & the Military Writers Society of America, & founded, along with David Morell & David Dun
(& others) the International Thriller Writers, Inc. She has co-created several best-selling books in the Covert-One series with legendary author Robert Ludlum. She is the widow of renowned detective novelist Dennis Lynds.

Do catch my Interview with this fascinating author.

More from Gayle Lynds:
The Coil
Masquerade
Mosaic
Mesmerized
With Robert Ludlum:
The Altman Code
The Paris Option
The Hades Factor
(04/09/06)

Rebecca