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Summary: A Great Read
Review: I guarantee you won't be able to put this book down. You get caught up in the mystery from page one. The female heroine, Liz Sansborough, awakes not knowing who she is. There's a handsome guy taking care of her, and she discovers he's with the CIA. Eventually, she figures out her identity, but by then she's learned all the deadly skills of a top CIA agent. She has to incorporate her new identity with her old one to figure out what's happened to her and why, and to stop the villain. He's about to break the Bank of France and walk away with a billion dollars, which will shake the financial markets of the world. And there's a U.S. government "black" program in mind control that's based on an actual one that was supposedly shut down in the 1970s. "Masquerade" keeps you up until 3 a.m. because you'll want to know what happens next. Really.
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Summary: A thrilling adventure brilliantly written.
Review: I have always enjoyed a good mystery, but Masquerade features an intelligent, athletic heroine whose time has come. The ingenious plot will keep your mind racing, but Lynds always remains a step ahead. I anxiously await this author's next publication
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: I just started reading this book a couple of days ago and I love it. It is different from James Patterson who is one of my favorite murder mysteries writers. It isn't the usual I killed him because type of mysteries. It makes you think that this could be a real story!
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Summary: Terrible....
Review: 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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Summary: Terrible....
Review: 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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Summary: Fast paced rollercoaster ride!
Review: I received this book as a advanced reader copy when I was a manager of a bookstore. Having nothing else to read while riding the bus home, I took the copy with me and finished it within two days! The plot was intense, leaving you guessing what was happening next. In this day and age of the BIG authors pounding out books for bucks, Masquerade is a refreshing change. The characters are believable, not the cardboard cutouts that you find so often in this genre. Her (Gayle's) descriptive qualities give you an almost photographic detail of the settings and the people in the story. The last few chapters of this novel leave you sweating, gasping, and biting your fingernails to the quick! If you read only one novel in the next year, let it be this one. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Average But Fun
Review: I think this story line must be one of the top five repeatedly used in the fiction world, because of that I was somewhat hesitant to read this book that a friend recommended. The story does move along and there are some interesting bits. I would say that there is not a lot new here so do not pick this book up if you have grown tired of this plot line. She also worked in the secret agent parts well enough, but again not in a unique way. The cast of characters are straight forward and direct - she really only focuses on a small group. On the other hand if you are looking for a fun book and keeps a good pace, then this is a not a bad read. Overall all a fun book meant for relaxation reading.
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Summary: it was an ok book
Review: i thought this book was alright..i didnt think stuff would happen as i thought.I didnt know if she was in the goverment.she kept on finding things on poeple like their visa,their driver's license.I didnt really understand this book it was a confusing book,but everything else was alright about the book.couldnt follow with the book.
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Summary: Too Unbelievable!
Review: In Masquerade, Lynds' first thriller, she shows some potential and some similarity in style to Robert Ludlum. Overall, however, Masquerade is a book in which I was disappointed and would not recommend. While I am usually willing to suspend belief to a degree in international thrillers, Masquerade just goes out of the statosphere in this dimension. It's plot, characters and ending are very unbelievable and the dialogue is too corny and unrealistic. On the plus side, Lynds manages to keep the story moving along at a brisk pace and made me want to finish the book to see how it ends. For this reason and her similarity in style to Ludlum, I plan to read at least one of Lynds' more recent works to see if she has grown in her writing skills. Although I did not enjoy Lynds' first attempt as a writer of international thrillers, she demonstates enough potential to warrant a second chance.
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Summary: Agents working for themselves
Review: In the intelligence business, you can't trust anyone, particularly people you are working for. In this novel, there is a lot of double dealing and, in some cases, the people don't always know who they are dealing with. A group of people handling large sums of untraceable money find they can siphon some off into their own accounts, and use their assets to give themselves an edge in business dealings. People are assassinated for the convenience of the agents, and various crimes (including murder) are committed in the United States. A senior official in the CIA uses his position to recruit homicidal people with no morals who will follow his directions without question. A trail of dead bodies are left strewn about the landscape. Some people are elimated because they know to much, and some just get in the way. An international assassin wants to come in from the cold. He makes the mistake of contacting U.S. intelligence. Some people want to offer immunity in exchange for what he knows, but other people want him dead because he knows secrets they want to keep buried. He might disrupt the plans of a person preparing to make a large financial killing, a person prepared to eliminate confederates and subordinates in order to cover his tracks. Some elements of the plot have been used before, e.g., drugging someone to make them follow your commands, but overall the plot is very original and has some interesting action and some twists in the tale. It is difficult to put the book down as you follow the story to the end.
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