Synopsis:
Confused, dazed, and unable to remember her own name, Liz Sansborough embarks on a terrifying journey in search of the truth that takes her into the perilous world of international terrorism, mind-altering drugs, and high-level post-Cold War espionage. 35,000 first printing.
Reviews:
The publisher's claim that Lynds will be the "first bestselling female author of international suspense" is hollow-and a bit surprising, given that at least one bestselling female author of international suspense, Linda Davies (whose Wilderness of Mirrors is reviewed below), is a fellow Doubleday writer. But Lynds does an admirable job in her debut novel of aping some of the top male international suspense writers of our era, especially early Ludlum, as she tosses into a swiftly moving narrative stream a vast and dangerous conspiracy, an array of improbable coincidences, several rogue government agents, a legendary international assassin (the "Carnivore") and a nearly friendless innocent caught in the middle of it all. Amnesiac Liz Scarsborough awakens to a house and husband she can't remember, to be told that she's an ex-CIA agent who has been living in hiding from the Carnivore. Liz believes that story for only a little longer than readers will, and she soon finds herself on the run from a gallery of threatening figures, heading for Paris in the company of a very neatly introduced fellow agent and incipient love interest. The resourceful heroine is captured but escapes, is recaptured but escapes again, in a dizzying sequence of action scenes that eventually involves a doppelganger, mind-bending drugs and brainwashing. Thriller fans may not find plausibility in Lynds's first, but they certainly will find the sort of teeth-grinding suspense that they crave. Major ad/promo; author tour.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
With its appealing heroine, this novel, written by an author who dares to tread in the predominately male bastion of CIA suspense novels, should cause a splash. A woman wakes up with no memory and is told that she is Liz Sansborough, a CIA agent. She comes to realize that she is really Liz's cousin, Sarah, and that the CIA has altered her body and mind in order to use her in an elaborate plot that will benefit a multinational company owned sub rosa by the CIA's chief operations officer. Sarah knows too much to be allowed to live and too little to know whom to trust, and spends most of the novel on the run with another agent. There's a lot of blood and guts here, but also an interesting story about how a woman who preferred to be on the sidelines of life becomes a passionate, committed actor in this drama. The author has pseudonymously published several YA novels. Recommended for most public libraries.
Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. Lib., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Masquerade is a fantastic read -- a plot full of surprises, delivered with an unerring eye for detail, that moves at a ballistic pace.
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