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Noah Boyd


Born
in The United States
January 01, 1943

Died
September 01, 2011

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction


Noah Boyd was the pseudonym Paul Lindsay, of a former FBI agent who spent more than twenty years working on some of the Bureau's toughest investigations, including the Green River Killer case and the Highland Park Strangler case (which he's credited with solving).

The first book in his Steve Vail series, The Bricklayer, was published in 2010. The second, Agent X, was published in February 2011. Boyd's intimate knowledge of the Bureau's inner workings, including its weaknesses, and his "in the trenches" experience lent unusual authenticity to Vail's character and the novel’s investigative details.

Boyd died in 2011, at the age of 68. ...more

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Average rating: 3.99 · 9,640 ratings · 970 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
The Bricklayer (Steve Vail,...
3.99 avg rating — 6,023 ratings — published 2010 — 43 editions
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Agent X (Steve Vail, #2)
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Series by Noah Boyd

The Bricklayer Agent X
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3.99 avg rating — 9,638 ratings

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“We are men who find chess fascinating. Did you expect our lives to be secretly interesting?”
― Noah Boyd, Agent X
tags: chess, humor
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“Vail: "There are worse things than being shot at."
Bannon: "Like...?"
Vail: "Living a life where you're never shot at.”
― noah boyd, Agent X
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“people who have their heads turned by compliments have them turned by criticism.”
― Noah Boyd, The Bricklayer
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