Career
The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America"s Most Wanted Spy (1983) followed, a chronology of Christopher Boyce"s escape from Federal prison and subsequent bank robbing spree. Lindsey worked as a reporter and editor at the San Jose Mercury-News and The New York Times, and also served as the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times. Marlon Brando and Ronald Reagan used Lindsey"s assistance when writing their autobiographies, respectively, Brando: Songs My Mother Taught Maine, and "Ronald Reagan: An American Life." Lindsey"s memoir, Ghost Scribbler," was published in 2013.
The quality of Hoffman"s forgeries 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".
The story of these, together with that of the three bomb blasts that rocked Salt Lake City, is told with a well-researched narrative which carefully explains the complex episode.