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Title: The Coil by Gayle Lynds ISBN: 0-312-30144-8 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 07 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 (33 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: high body count, lots of action, what more do you need?
Comment: "The Coil" is Gayle Lynds' fourth solo novel (she has also written three others with Robert Ludlum). "The Coil" is the sequel to "Masquerade" and features Liz Sansborough as the protagonist. This novel takes place approximately five years after "Masquerade", and Liz Sansborough is now a college professor teaching out in California. She is a former CIA agent who was deemed far too compromised as an agent to ever be allowed to return. Liz is the daughter of the notorious assassin, The Carnivore, and it is because of this connection that she was unable to return to the CIA.
Liz teaches a course on the psychology of violence and now views violence as one of the great evils of society and that violence should be avoided at all costs, even in self defense. This is who Liz is, but the novel opens with Liz's friend, Sarah Walker, being kidnapped while on vacation and Sarah's husband being shot during the kidnapping. The kidnapper tells Asher (Sarah's husband) to get The Carnivore's files. At the same time this is happening, Liz is attacked and almost killed when she is out running. Liz is eventually contacted by the CIA to help them find her father's files and to save Sarah. This pushes Liz across two continents in a race to find the files before the kidnappers and to rescue Sarah Walker.
The first thing that I appreciated about this novel is that it wasn't necessary to have read "Masquerade" to understand who Liz Sansborough is or what is going on. Gayle Lynds does an excellent job in setting up the story that all the necessary background is provided in a way that does not feel like it is just dropped into the novel in a big chunk. Rather, the background info is revealed to us in bits and pieces in such a manner that it is appropriate to the story that is being told. Another thing that I liked was how fast paced the story was. I have not read many espionage novels, but the image of what they were like was dispelled by "The Coil". This story moved! There are enough twists and turns to keep the reader guessing, and I was never entirely sure where the story was going. Lynds also kept the body count high enough that I didn't know who was going to live and who was going to die, and this kept up the tension and suspense. Not having read any of Gayle Lynds' work, I had no idea what to expect going into "The Coil." I was pleasantly surprised. One of the higher compliments I can give is by saying that "The Coil" was good enough that it made me want to read her other novels (specifically "Masquerade").
Rating: 5
Summary: Polished political techno-thriller
Comment: Gayle Lynds, a talented colleague of Robert Ludlum, has penned a slick, clever and cerbral espionage thriller in "The Coil". Lynds using an impressive knowledge of geopolitics, developes a fast moving plot replete with well developed characters.
The main protagonist, Liz Sansborough is a professor at U. California at Santa Barbara and also the hostess of a cold war TV series. An ex-CIA operative, she was set up in the prestigious professorship by a foundation that served as a CIA front to keep her safe and under surveillance. Astonishingly, Liz's parents, who are now deceased, were an assassination team. Her dad was an elite contract killer with the moniker of The Carnivore.
While at the university, attempts were made on Liz's life. Through investigation she learns that secret files kept by her notorious father have been stolen. They are being used to blackmail certain influential members of government, finance and industry resulting in a plethora of curious mishaps and accidents. Probing further, Sansborough learns that her cousin Sarah, an almost identical look alike, and her husband Asher, a CIA operative have been kidnapped. Extending her inquest to Europe she teams up with another cousin, Simon Childs, a British M16 agent to try to unearth the blackmail scheme. Childs' father, Robert, an influential member of Parliament committed suicide under suspicious circumstances.
They uncover clues that point to a group called The Coil, a small bunch of wealthy politicians and industrialists who secretly shape world policies is an effort towards globalization of industry, to maximize their own financial interests.
Liz and Simon Childs proceed on a globe trotting search to rescue Sarah and Asher and recover the stolen Carnivore files. What results is an exhilarating plot that concludes with some unexpected plot twists that left this reader very impressed.
Rating: 1
Summary: Bad Author
Comment: The Book should be good. it's such a blatant rip-off of Robert Ludlums "The Chancellor Manuscript" I'm surprised she bothered to change the names of the charactors!!!If you want to read a good book the the original, NOT her copy!!!!
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Title: Masquerade by Gayle Lynds ISBN: 0312986033 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Mesmerized by Gayle Lynds ISBN: 0671024086 Publisher: Pocket Star Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Memorial Day (FLYNN, VINCE) by Vince Flynn ISBN: 0743453972 Publisher: Atria Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: A Death in Vienna by Daniel Silva ISBN: 0399151435 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 23 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Avenger (Ay Adult - Forsyth) by Frederick Forsyth ISBN: 0312319517 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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