Winner of "best novel" from both the Mililtary Writers Society of America and the American Authors Association, The Last Spymaster is a compelling tale of life inside the CIA.
Charles "Jay" Tice was a spy's spy. The chief of the CIA's elite Clandestine Services, he was a legend throughout the world of international intelligence. But secretly he was also a traitor, reputedly selling information that would seriously compromise the security of the United States for decades to come.
Since his treachery was exposed, Tice has been kept under strict surveillance in a maximum security prison.
Then one morning, his cell is discovered empty. Jay Tice has vanished — without tripping an alarm or leaving any trace of his passing.
Elaine Cunningham is a hunter — a CIA operative who specializes in finding people who don't want to be found. Young, gifted, and a maverick, she is assigned to track Tice and bring him to ground before he disappears forever.
But as she matches wits in a perilous game with one of the greatest spymasters of all time, she discovers there is far more at stake than an old spy's last run for freedom.
Lurking in the shadows are other hidden players with their own lethal agendas, and from Geneva to Washington, Berlin to New York City, a deadly conspiracy is coalescing. With only a few hours to go and the future of millions in the balance, Cunningham must uncover the truth behind the legend of the last spymaster.
With THE LAST SPYMASTER, New York Times best-selling author Gayle Lynds has created her masterwork, a compelling thriller of loyalty, betrayal, and the wheels-within-wheels world of modern espionage. Once again she proves herself to be one of the most original and exciting writers in the field today.
The Author
New York Times bestseller 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 such awards as "Novel of the Year" (THE LAST SPYMASTER) given by the Military Writers Society of America, and have been 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. 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 and wrote three of the novels. One of them, THE HADES FACTOR, was a CBS miniseries in April 2006.
A member of the Association for Intelligence Officers, she is co-founder and co-president (with David Morrell) of International Thriller Writers, Inc., and is listed in Who’s Who in the World. Born in Nebraska, raised in Iowa, she now lives in Southern California. You can visit her at www.GayleLynds.com.
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