Biography

Paul Lindsay, who wrote seven novels as Noah Boyd, died Thursday night. He was 68 and had battled blood cancer since 2005.

Lindsay was a Marine Corps platoon commander in Vietnam, where he was awarded two Purple Hearts and the Silver Star for Bravery. He was then an FBI agent in Detroit for more than 20 years. His novels include Agent X, The Bricklayer and Last Chance to Die. The Bricklayer is being made into movie.

His family wrote that Lindsay "thought of himself as a literary grifter, someone who, in his own words, 'appeals to a publisher's implicit need for profit rather than producing something of literary merit.' "

He once wrote: "Real writers care far more about publishing what they create than the number of commas in their advances. Fortunately, I have never been cursed with that kind of character. So, for a literary con man, an incurable disease is an opportunity, one that has little choice but to exploit."
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