Last Days Of The Condor (Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller), by James Grady
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A New York Times Bestselling Author 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.
Last Days Of The Condor (Thorndike Press Large Print Thriller), by James Grady- Amazon Sales Rank: #7862304 in Books
- Brand: Grady, James
- Published on: 2015-06-17
- Format: Large Print
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.00" h x 5.60" w x 8.60" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 515 pages
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“Last Days of the Condor shoots high-caliber, nonstop suspense and action from the first to the last sentence, a page-turning, ultramodern, sexy spy thriller with compelling, multigenerational characters fighting to save themselves and our shadowed American dream. Terrific!” ―Stephen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Point of Impact
“Grady is a master of intrigue.” ―John Grisham, international bestselling author of Gray Mountain
“James Grady [is] the king of the modern espionage thriller.” ―George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire
“Lean, edgy and sassy... Grady is a master of the CIA genre.” ―Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer and historian, author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames
“Wonderful . . . Reading the novel, I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel, "1984," sometimes of the Dylan song "Desolation Row" . . . A novel that's supremely entertaining and a sad, important look at the United States today.” ―The Washington Post
From the Inside Flap
LOOK IN THE MIRROR: You're nobody. You know pursuing the truth will get you killed. But you refuse to just fade away.
You've been designated an enemy of the largest secret national security apparatus in America's history. All assassins' guns are aimed at you. You run for your life, branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor.
Everyone you care about is a potential target―or your killer. 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 forced to become a fugitive because of your romantic dreams. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy.
Last Days of the Condor is the pulse-pounding saga of America on the edge of a startling spy world revolution. 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, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets by muckraking investigative reporter and novelist James Grady.?
About the Author
JAMES GRADY is the New York Times bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor, which became the Robert Redford movie Three Days Of The Condor. Besides working as a screenwriter for CBS, FX, HBO, and major studios, his journalism includes street time as a muckraker for columnist Jack Anderson after Watergate and being a cultural columnist for AOL's PoliticsDaily.com. Born and raised in Montana, Grady and his wife, writer Bonnie Goldstein, live inside DC's Beltway.
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. "Reality becomes what the data says it is" By TChris James Grady introduced the Condor in 1974. The Condor should be enjoying a quiet retirement but life as a thriller hero isn't that simple.Homeland Security is keeping an eye on Vin, the heavily medicated man formerly known as Condor, a CIA agent put to pasture with a variety of stress-related mental health diagnoses. Although Vin's keepers see him as a "crazy old burnout," Vin correctly suspects that he's being followed by people who are not known to his keepers. One of the two agents tasked with checking up on Vin, Faye Dozier, believes his concerns have merit. The other doesn't give a hoot (although he uses a more colorful word than hoot).Vin finds himself the object of a rather ingenious plot that plays out during the last three-quarters of the novel. The ultimate mystery -- who is trying to kill Condor? -- is brilliantly and chillingly resolved. Chilling, because what Grady imagines could well be real or could soon become the new reality of "homeland security."Grady writes in an urgent style that wastes no words, yet his characterizations are surprisingly complete. Condor is the central character but Faye is equally important. She carries physical and emotional scars from an incident in which she messed up (which is why she's assigned to low level surveillance of has-been terrorists and crazy old burnouts). As you might expect of a spy, she has trust issues, but her impermissible involvement with a Congressional lawyer is helping her cope with them. Or not.Last Days of the Condor is crafted with the assurance of a veteran writer who is at home with his characters and with the changing world. Grady plays with technology and data in ways that are mind-boggling. Apart from being an excellent action novel with a strong plot, Last Days of the Condor is smart, sophisticated, appropriately cynical, and utterly convincing. Last Days doesn't quite have the depth of the very best espionage novels but it works perfectly as a fast-moving thriller that is spiced with tradecraft. It provides an intelligent view of the intelligence game that is thoroughly entertaining.
21 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Condor is BACK! By Will Graham I first read SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR when I was in college, and to say it blew me away would be an understatement. Then came the sequel, SHADOW OF THE CONDOR, equally terrific After that, nothing. For various reasons, Mr. Grady decided to drop the five-book series he had planned and went to write other novels. There is a very brief cameo of Condor in MAD DOGS (a cracking thriller all its own), but that was it. I even tracked down a UK imprint of SIX DAYS because it contained the outline for a potential reboot of the film series, CONDOR.NET.Now, at last, James Grady resurrects his most famous character - Ronald Malcolm, aka CONDOR - in a post 9-11 World.Having spent many years in a CIA 'facility' for damaged agents, Condor is released and taken back to Washington, D.C., for reasons never really explained to him. The poor guy is in bad shape mentally and physically, his years of work and then confinement having taken their toll. It isn't long before 'everything old is new again', and Condor is in a fight for his life and the lives of others. The only person he can trust is a female agent young enough to be his daughter, and the crosses and double crosses mount up quickly. Condor is not a super-agent, not even remotely, and he has paid a very heavy price for his loyalty and patriotism to the United States. He is damaged goods of the highest order, and that adds to the tension.What I genuinely enjoyed about this book (aside from the return of Condor) is Mr. Grady skillfully weaves both versions of the character (his in the novels SIX DAYS OF… and SHADOW OF…) and the iconic film version THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR that starred Robert Redford; little Easter Eggs are sprinkled through out referencing the film, creating a blended reality to build a story that is a perhaps a bit too realistic for the times we live in.Mr. Grady has also released a novella NEXT DAYS OF THE CONDOR, a 'prequel' of sorts to the events in this novel. Both are triumphant returns of a character I have personally wondered about and missed for more years than I want to admit.I cannot say enough good things about these two stories. Fast, thoughtful, action-packed, and meditative all at the same time. You'll wonder just how much is fact and how much is fiction, and it will make you pause and think about the people who give their all to protect the rest of us.Highly, HIGHLY, recommended!
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. The Condor's Last Hurrah By plane Possibly the final book about the individual nicknamed The Condor beginning with the 1974 novel "Three Days of the Condor." That book was made into a motion picture starring Robert Redford and concerned a man that worked for the CIA reading books looking for illegal codes or information that should not be in print.Condor is still working reading books when his employers name him as a traitor for releasing information to the enemy and order his death. Condor runs evading the hit men hunting him. On his path to escape the unjust fate that condemns him he allies himself with several people. First, is a woman, young enough to be his daughter who is a CIA agent and who helps him due to not believing that he is guilty of any crime, than a lady who he admired but never approached. Merle, the second lady is dragged into the action when her apartment is taken over by Condor and the young agent to hide in. Finally involved is the man that is supervising the hunt. As with the other books involving Condor action is super fast and carries the reader along at breakneck speed. Grady introduces a factor at the ending which while not absolutely necessary for the story makes for another insight into the world of spycraft. The author has allowed Condor to age and show infirmities and disabilities associated with the period of life he is depicted as being in. This factor makes for a more realistic approach to the descriptions and reactions of the Condor. A good read and one that will keep the reader moving along with the action and conditions described.
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