Six Days of the CondorThe classic spy thriller about corruption in the CIA that inspired the hit film and TV show: “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). |
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Page 1962
... Street in Moscow , not a street in the movie's New York or the novel's Washington , D.C. Soviet spymasters created a false cover identity for their spy section , and even - as in the movie and novel - stuck a phony brass plaque by its ...
... Street in Moscow , not a street in the movie's New York or the novel's Washington , D.C. Soviet spymasters created a false cover identity for their spy section , and even - as in the movie and novel - stuck a phony brass plaque by its ...
Page 1963
... street - stalking genre of journalists called investigative reporters . I lived on A Street , Southeast , six blocks from the white - icing Capitol dome that looked even grander than on my high school civics textbook . I rented a third ...
... street - stalking genre of journalists called investigative reporters . I lived on A Street , Southeast , six blocks from the white - icing Capitol dome that looked even grander than on my high school civics textbook . I rented a third ...
Page 1964
... streets to my wondrous internship on the staff of Montana's cantankerous but brilliant populist Senator Lee Metcalf ... Street , Southeast . A short , black - iron fence marked the border between the public sidewalk and that building's ...
... streets to my wondrous internship on the staff of Montana's cantankerous but brilliant populist Senator Lee Metcalf ... Street , Southeast . A short , black - iron fence marked the border between the public sidewalk and that building's ...
Page 1966
... streets in search of an angry fix . The horrors of heroin screamed too loudly for the man inside the poet to ignore ... Street . Judging from the doctor's steady stream of out - of - town patients , everyone west of the Mississippi ...
... streets in search of an angry fix . The horrors of heroin screamed too loudly for the man inside the poet to ignore ... Street . Judging from the doctor's steady stream of out - of - town patients , everyone west of the Mississippi ...
Page 1969
... street , he was no superman . But he did work for the CIA . The Central Intelligence Agency , America's best - known spy shop . In that fearful post - Joe McCarthy era , when assassinated JFK had publicly loved James Bond and secretly ...
... street , he was no superman . But he did work for the CIA . The Central Intelligence Agency , America's best - known spy shop . In that fearful post - Joe McCarthy era , when assassinated JFK had publicly loved James Bond and secretly ...
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