James Grady

The classic spy thriller about corruption in the CIA that inspired the hit film and TV “A master of intrigue” (John Grisham).Sandwiches are a part of Ronald Malcolm’s every day, but one just saved his life. On the day that gunmen pay a visit to the American Literary Historical Society, he’s out at lunch. The society is actually a backwater of the Central Intelligence Agency, where Malcolm and a few other bookworms comb mystery novels for clues that might unlock real life diplomatic questions. One of his colleagues has learned something he wasn’t meant to know. A sinister conspiracy has penetrated the CIA, and the gunmen are its representatives. They massacre the office, and only learn later of Malcolm—a loose end that needs to be dealt with. Malcolm—codename Condor—calls his handlers at the agency, hoping for a safe haven, instead drawing another attempt on his life. With no one left to trust he goes on the run. But like it or not, Malcolm is the only person who can root out the corruption at the highest levels of the CIA. This “chilling novel of top security gone berserk” earned James Grady his reputation as a Grand Master of the spy thriller, inspiring legions of imitators as well as the classic Sydney Pollack film Three Days of the Condor and the new TV series Condor featuring Max Irons, Mira Sorvino, and Brendan Fraser ( Library Journal ).

Look in the mirror: You're nobody anybody knows. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away.So you're designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. Good guys or bad guys, it doesn't matter: All assassins' guns are aimed at you. And you run for your life branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor.Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter-she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy.Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady.

"You gotta have guts to be nuts." In a top-secret asylum for former CIA agents who have lost their grip on reality, five insane spies find their beloved psychiatrist dead, killed by a professional assassin. Sensing an obvious setup, the quintet of crazies concoct an ingenious breakout from their high-security institution and hit the road in search of the Enemy. God help the populace when their meds run out . . . Traumatized by their experiences in the CIA, they operate under somewhat skewed perceptions of reality. Their training, however, has prepared them to survive in a hostile world--even if that world is the Boston-to-Washington corridor as they chase down the assassin. A rousing blend of Ken Kesey's darkly satirical masterwork One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Robert Ludlum's spy fiction classic The Bourne Identity, Mad Dogs is a stunning novel of political commentary and a tour-de-force of literary style.

The new novel from the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor— set on a heart-pounding cross-country train ride."Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel 1984 , sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post"Grady is a master of intrigue."—John GrishamThis Train races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisible puppeteer. There is a coder named Nora, Mugzy, the yippy dog, and Ross, the too-curious poet. On board, it's a countdown to murder…On this train there is a silver madman, a targeted banker, and crises of conscience. This train harbors the "perfect" couple's conspiracies, the chaos of being a teenager, and parenthood alongside the wows of being nine. There is a widow and a wannabe, and the sleaziest billionaire.On this train, there is the suicide ticket, the bomb, sex, love, and loneliness. The heist. Revenge. Redemption.This Train is a ticking clock, roaring through forty-seven fictional hours of non-stop suspense and action, through the challenges of Racism. Sexism. Global warming. What it means to be alive.This train carries all of us. All aboard!

The Condor is Back - and Everybody Wants HimThe Americans want him as a sitting duck in a deadly trap.The Russians want him out of the path of their perfect plan.The Chinese want him for a perverse purpose that no normal mind would ever imagine.The Condor is back - and this time it doesn't seem that even his luck and nerve and brains and sheer will to live will help him survive.

The explosive short story launch for the new novel LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR"They led him out of the CIA's secret insane asylum as the sun set over autumn's forest there in Maine."Led him into a modern American nightmare any of us could face.But he's a legend, a silver-haired man codenamed Condor, a classic American hero in his first appearance since Watergate, on his way in this prequel to the upcoming novel, LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR. And it's all about the price he's forced to pay to get there.Award-winning short story author, screenwriter and novelist James Grady delivers a bullet-paced, savage journey with the iconic character he created and that Robert Redford made an international sensation in the movie THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR. Love, sex, loyalty, honor and savagery loosed in our modern world electrify this novella, a portrait of heroism and horror and America beyond 9/11. It is an espionage adventure unlike anything you've ever read."Grady is to spy novels as the great Elmore Leonard was to crime fiction," says Pulitzer Prize winning author Kai Bird, while John Grisham calls "A master of intrigue."At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An action-filled coming of age novel about love, vengeance, corruption, and justice by the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor."Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel 1984 , sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"— Patrick Anderson , The Washington Post"Grady is a master of intrigue."— John GrishamSet in 1959, the "year the music died," The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters ten-year-old Lucas's world, he finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up.Alongside the tightly written drama of Lucas and his family, Grady, author of the classic "Condor" series, evokes a heady mood and sense of place. From the Space Race and the first warnings of global climate change, to the brutal racism of segregation and the hope of a new generation to move us forward, The Smoke in Our Eyes is a fresh rending of rural noir that captures both an intimate story and the volitility of mid-century America.

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors A thrilling Condor novella from the bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor. Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and it’s back to work. Unfortunately, he’s been assigned the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the high-adrenaline rush of being a covert spy for the CIA. Struggling to separate hallucinations from reality, Condor attempts to immerse himself in the task at hand, but his acute sense of danger soon overwhelms him. While wandering the labyrinth of the Library of Congress’s subterranean tunnels, he encounters a damsel in distress. Someone is following her, and Condor can’t resist the lure of covert ops—or placing his own life in jeopardy. James Grady revolutionized the thriller genre with his CIA analyst codenamed Condor, immortalized by Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, and currently portrayed by Max Irons in the all-new TV series Condor.The Bibliomysteries are a series of short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors.

Barcelona. 22 cm. 478 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Colección contemporánea', 169. Grady, James 1949-. Traducción de Josefina Guerrero. Traducción River of darkness. Colección contemporánea (Editorial Planeta). 169 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. 8408001639

The legendary CIA spy is back—in a “superb” collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor (Publishers Weekly, starred review). James Grady, “king of the modern espionage thriller” (George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire), first introduced his clandestine CIA operative— Condor—in a debut novel that became Three Days of the Condor, one of the key films of the paranoid era of the 1970s, and is now the basis for the hit AT&T original series, Condor, starring Max Irons and William Hurt. In this explosive collection featuring a new introduction on the writing and publication history of Condor, a never-before-published original novella, and short fiction collected for the first time, Grady brings his covert agent into the twenty-first century. From the chaos of 9/11 to the unprecedented Russian cyber threats, Condor is back. In condor.net, the intelligence analyst chases an unfathomable conspiracy that begins in Afghanistan and leads to the secrets of his own superiors. In Caged Daze of the Condor, Jasmine Daze of the Condor, and Next Day of the Condor, the paranoia of National Security’s sworn soldier reaches a screaming pitch when he’s locked behind the walls of the CIA’s private insane asylum. Classified documents in the basement of the Library of Congress draw Condor into a murderous subterranean world where no one can be trusted in Condor in the Stacks. And in Russian Roulette of the Condor, the striking new novella shot through with the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War, the underground patriot faces a dictator determined to turn American politics into an insidious spy game. Brace yourself for six shots of the iconic Condor from James Grady, who has been called a “master of intrigue” by John Grisham, and whose prose was compared to George Orwell and Bob Dylan by the Washington Post.

An ex-CIA operative is on the run from his former employers in this “brutal, moving” thriller from the author of Six Days of the Condor (James Ellroy). Jud is not too drunk to recognize the assassin. How the hit man found him in this hard-bitten roadhouse, Jud isn’t sure, but he’s not going down without a fight. His hands shaking too much for close combat, Jud perches himself on the bar’s roof and drops onto the assassin as he steps out into the darkness. Though Jud only meant to stun, the man is dead. Jud doesn’t care. Quitting the CIA hasn’t been easy. Once one of the agency’s top killers, Jud’s skills have been dulled by civilian life, and his only chance of survival is to go into hiding. But before disappearing completely, he calls one of the few people he can trust, DC journalist Nick Kelley. Together, they’re about to take on the deadly rot at the heart of the CIA. James Grady revolutionized the thriller genre with his CIA analyst codenamed Condor, immortalized by Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, and currently portrayed by Max Irons in the all-new TV series Condor. In The Nature of the Game, Grady introduces another complex hero in a “brooding, ambitious” thriller that offers a “wrap-up of everything awful in the spy business” (Kirkus Reviews).

A post-9/11 re-imagining of Six Days of the Condor,the basis for the classic film starring Robert RedfordFour decades after Six Days of the Condor revolutionized the thriller, James Grady reimagines his classic tale for the post-9/11 world. In this chilling short story, a CIA researcher named Condor is caught in the grip of a conspiracy that he can barely understand. When he finds something strange linked to a covert operation in Afghanistan, he makes the mistake of contacting his superiors. A gunman descends during an office coffee break, killing all but Condor. Alone and out of his depth, Condor chases the conspiracy as he’s on the run, learning quickly that, though the Cold War may be over, espionage remains a dangerous game.

An atmospheric and dramatic novel set in mid-century Montana by the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor."Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post For the teenaged Luc, his days are preoccupied with the daily dramas of high school. President John F. Kennedy's assassination seems a world away. But the winds of history find its way to his small Montana town as marijuana clouds rise in the hallways and the notices of neighborhood young men of "Killed in Action" in Vietnam keep arriving at an increasing rate. Acclaimed novelist James Grady's American Sky brings to life the world of a young man who is caught in the nexus of vast social change. From blue collar life in the heartland to Kent State and the Civil Rights movement, American Sky is a sweeping narrative that builds to a crime that threatens to tear Luc's world apart. Previous compared to Larry McMurty, George Orwell, Harper Lee and Bob Dylan, James Grady explores Bruce Springsteen's generation and has crafted a action filled and timeless destined to become a classic.

An illegal police wiretap reveals an assassination plot targeted at Faron Sears, the wealthy, brilliant, and charismatic head of a cyber-based global empire, a black ex-con who has traveled up America's success ladder from the Chicago ghetto to the rank of favored presidential contender and major political visionary.Veteran FBI Inspector Dalton Cole, young black FBI Special Agent Sallie Pickett, and battle-scarred D.C. homicide detective Nick Sherman are drafted to protect Sears. Their mandate requires them to stop a brutal assassin who is racing toward his mark along a web of blood stretching from Lexington to Los Angeles, Idaho to Chicago, New York to Washington, D.C. Complicating their already impossible job are two secrets only they one of Faron's inner circle is a traitor, and their own superiors in America's justice machine are fueled by a secret agenda.Cole, Pickett, and Sherman forge a treacherous alliance with Faron, who's out to revolutionize the system they have been sworn to serve. As they scramble against the clock to stop political horror, they find their personal hearts electrified with forces sparked by this enigmatic leader.

Yesterday John Lang was a young CIA street dog fighting his country's invisible wars in the bloody back alleys around the world. Today he strolls the marble corridors of Washington as the agency's liaison to the U.S. Senate. Violence was supposed to be in his past. Then a bomb guts a New York skyscraper and an "officially" stray bullet kills Lang's partner. Lang must spy once more. This time his target will be the post-Cold War, "new" CIA, poised on the razor-edged realities of the 1990s' New World Order. Was his partner murdered and if so why? What secrets link the Senate Intelligence Committee and his late partner? Which loyalties must Lang betray? And how can he discover the truth - let alone avenge his partner's death - without destroying himself? The answers lie under the monuments, the slums, and the freeways in the other Washington, the city of cover-ups and twisted loyalties and cynical power. Here death can come silently, unobtrusively, anywhere, any time. Here Lang is branded as a rebel, hunted by a trail of sanctioned agents, and trapped between two women he can't trust who both claim a piece of his heart. Here he must race toward survival and redemption...and a revelation as shocking as any in suspense fiction.

Decades after his adventure in the classic Six Days of the Condor, the eponymous spy reflects on his life while awaiting his next target in this tense novella. Ronald Malcolm, codename Condor, is still in the spy game. He may be older now, but in a world where hardly anybody sees anybody, nobody sees old. He’s the perfect choice to sit in New York City’s Penn Station and wait for what he calls “the killing train.” And while he waits for someone to take a life, he reflects on his own life. He wonders what has brought him to this moment. He looks back over memories of his childhood, his recruitment to the CIA, and that bloody day at the American Literary Historical Society that changed everything for him. But he must be careful not to get too lost on memory lane. The clock is ticking, and targets are on the move. He can’t afford to get caught with his head in the clouds . . .Praise for James Grady “A chilling novel of top security gone berserk . . . Breakneck . . . Not a slow minute.” —Library Journal on Six Days of the Condor “Grady’s writing has changed dramatically over the years, evolving into a literary, impressionistic style . . . [It] is a perfect fit for the aging, unhinged, yet still-lethal Condor. This is an author writing at the top of his, or anyone else’s, game.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Short Takes

Lieutenant Devlin Rourke investigates the murders of four unrelated people in the parking garage of a Baltimore office building

The murder of Janet Armstrong, a coed turned prostitute, leads tough private detective Rankin into the seamy world of Washington, D.C. prostitution and the elite environs of political privilege

The first novel about Baltimore homicide detective Devlin Rourke, a good cop plagued by Sherlock Holmes’s curse while fighting mobsters, self-righteous reformers, and – years before the term was coined – a serial murder.

Washington, D.C., where our true history is made in the shadows. The corrupt and violent presidency of Richard Nixon. A country at war with itself. An era that crystallized around a third-rate burglary called Watergate.An era that slams into three good Police Officer John Quinn-obsessed by the murder of one woman, seeking redemption through the love of another. Marine officer Nathan Holloway-haunted by the honor and horrors of the war grinding through Vietnam. Senate aide Vaughn Conner-an idealist prosecuting the sins of a president only to have his own sins make him a target of evils he never imagined.These men collide with a swirl of history so fantastic that its truths read like fiction; and there, in that netherworld between flesh and fantasy, City of Shadows blasts a .45 slug of what-if with its pulse-pounding, action-driven saga of good and evil, tragedy and triumph.

A haunting short story about friendship and loss in small-town MontanaJake, Steve, and Thel are inseparable. The trio scampers through the narrow streets of Shelby without giving thought to the rest of the world. Then Jake’s life changes the first time he goes up in a That ride in a battered old Mustang P-51 teaches him that no one but pilots can know true freedom. He joins the Air Force and comes back to Shelby when he’s on leave. Steve and Thel stay behind, making lives in the tough heartland town in Montana. Though farther apart, they remain a group—and will stay that way, whether they live or die.

A joyous comic caper crime novel, influenced by Donald Westlake. Originally published under the pseudonym of Brit Shelby

The story of the greed, corruption, and murder that is necessary when the town of Steeltown is to be taken over

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Рональд Малькольм по прозвищу Кондор служит в безобидном аналитическом отделе. Однажды, вернувшись с обеда, он с ужасом видит, что все его коллеги убиты… Кондор вынужден бежать, и с этого дня на него начинается настоящая охота. Однако он не намерен так просто сдаваться и решает во что бы то ни стало выяснить, кто стоит за этой расправой…Прошли годы. Кондор, оставивший оперативную службу и работающий теперь в книжном архиве, однажды замечает, что за ним кто-то следит… А на следующий день в доме Кондора происходит жестокое убийство, и обвиняют во всем его. Как когда-то в молодости, ему снова приходится пускаться в бега… Он обязательно должен найти настоящего убийцу – ведь от этого зависит не только его свобода и доброе имя, но и жизнь.