The Falcon and the Snowman In 1977, Lindsey began chronicling the story of
Christopher John Boyce and
Andrew Daulton Lee, who were both convicted of selling information to the
Soviets.
The Falcon and the Snowman was eventually published in 1979 and in 1980 he received the
Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book. In 1983, the sequel, ''The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy'', was released; it chronicled Boyce's escape from federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree.
The Falcon and the Snowman was optioned for a film and was subsequently made into a
film of the same name, released in January 1985.
The Falcon and the Snowman won the
Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime in 1980.
A Gathering of Saints Lindsey's third non-fiction book was
A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit released in 1988. The book tells the story of a series of incidents involving document forger
Mark Hofmann and
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). During the early 1980s, Hofmann, an LDS document dealer, began to uncover a series of potentially damaging documents implying that
Joseph Smith, far from being the angelically inspired founder of a church, was in fact a
diviner led to a cache of gold by a spirit that took the form of a
white salamander. These documents were in actuality
forgeries made by Hofmann, but the quality was such that it took some intensive detective work to uncover this, even after a number of document experts had found them to be "genuine". Lindsey won the 1989
CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction for this book. Lindsey's own memoir,
Ghost Scribbler, was published in 2012. == Personal ==