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Three Days of the Condor
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Published January 1, 1976
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James Grady
92 books198 followersJames Grady is a longtime author of thrillers, police procedural and espionage novels. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for United States Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana as an staff member.
From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.
James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.
In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.
From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.
James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.
In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.
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October 17, 2023
Run Condor run!
Original title "Six Days of the Condor"
Condor is the code name for an employee of the CIA. His mission is to read, read everything he can to see if any subversive codes are being posted in innocuous-looking literature.
The new accountant discovers that the number of packages shipped to his location does not match the bill of lading and tells Condor hoping to get his view on whether he should tell the boss. The accountant bypasses his immediate boss and brings this to the attention of his superiors in Langley.
One day Condor leaves the building for lunch by an unrecorded unauthorized back door. On returning he finds everyone dead.
Who did this and who can he trust? To survive he must use his wits and what he has learned from his reading.
The movie "Three Days of the Condor" is based on this book, which is the first in a series of books, sort of like the James Bond series. Naturally being film media, the story needed cutting down to size, hence three days instead of six. Robert Redford has to squeeze James Grady's "Six Days of the Condor" into the Redford mold. The book plot of drugs and Viet Nam are out. Redford's substitute plot of oil and Arabs is in. Bad guys differ. Great acting, great actors, and a few faux pas, such as if they knew there was a back door to the location, don't you think it would be watched? In the movie, Tina Chen (Janice) can be seen again in "Paper Man” (1971).
Reading a later introduction in the book by James Grady the plot was changed because of the politics of the day at the time of the film Viet Nam was out and oil was in. Also, the drug-of-choice in the book was changed.
Original title "Six Days of the Condor"
Condor is the code name for an employee of the CIA. His mission is to read, read everything he can to see if any subversive codes are being posted in innocuous-looking literature.
The new accountant discovers that the number of packages shipped to his location does not match the bill of lading and tells Condor hoping to get his view on whether he should tell the boss. The accountant bypasses his immediate boss and brings this to the attention of his superiors in Langley.
One day Condor leaves the building for lunch by an unrecorded unauthorized back door. On returning he finds everyone dead.
Who did this and who can he trust? To survive he must use his wits and what he has learned from his reading.
The movie "Three Days of the Condor" is based on this book, which is the first in a series of books, sort of like the James Bond series. Naturally being film media, the story needed cutting down to size, hence three days instead of six. Robert Redford has to squeeze James Grady's "Six Days of the Condor" into the Redford mold. The book plot of drugs and Viet Nam are out. Redford's substitute plot of oil and Arabs is in. Bad guys differ. Great acting, great actors, and a few faux pas, such as if they knew there was a back door to the location, don't you think it would be watched? In the movie, Tina Chen (Janice) can be seen again in "Paper Man” (1971).
Reading a later introduction in the book by James Grady the plot was changed because of the politics of the day at the time of the film Viet Nam was out and oil was in. Also, the drug-of-choice in the book was changed.
October 8, 2023
Run Condor run!
Original title "Six Days of the Condor"
Condor is the code name for an employee of the CIA. His mission is to read, read everything he can to see if any subversive codes are being posted in innocuous-looking literature.
The new accountant discovers that the number of packages shipped to his location does not match the bill of lading and tells Condor hoping to get his view on if he should tell the boss. The accountant bypasses his immediate boss and brings this to the attention of his superiors in Langley.
One day Condor leaves the building for lunch by an unrecorded unauthorized back door. On returning he finds everyone dead.
Who did this and who can he trust? To survive he must use his wits and what he has learned from his reading.
The movie "Three Days of the Condor" is based on this book, which is the first in a series of books, sort of like the James Bond series. Naturally being a film medium, the story needed cutting down to size, hence three days instead of six. Robert Redford has to squeeze James Grady's "Six Days of the Condor" into the Redford mold. The book plot of drugs and Viet Nam are out. Redford's substitute plot of oil and Arabs is in. Bad guys differ. Great acting, great actors, and a few faux pas, such as if they knew there was a back door to the location, don't you think it would be watched? In the movie, Tina Chen (Janice) can be seen again in "Paper Man” (1971).
Reading a later introduction in the book by James Grady the plot was changed because of the politics of the day at the time of the film Viet Nam was out and oil was in. Also, the drug-of-choice in the book was changed.
Original title "Six Days of the Condor"
Condor is the code name for an employee of the CIA. His mission is to read, read everything he can to see if any subversive codes are being posted in innocuous-looking literature.
The new accountant discovers that the number of packages shipped to his location does not match the bill of lading and tells Condor hoping to get his view on if he should tell the boss. The accountant bypasses his immediate boss and brings this to the attention of his superiors in Langley.
One day Condor leaves the building for lunch by an unrecorded unauthorized back door. On returning he finds everyone dead.
Who did this and who can he trust? To survive he must use his wits and what he has learned from his reading.
The movie "Three Days of the Condor" is based on this book, which is the first in a series of books, sort of like the James Bond series. Naturally being a film medium, the story needed cutting down to size, hence three days instead of six. Robert Redford has to squeeze James Grady's "Six Days of the Condor" into the Redford mold. The book plot of drugs and Viet Nam are out. Redford's substitute plot of oil and Arabs is in. Bad guys differ. Great acting, great actors, and a few faux pas, such as if they knew there was a back door to the location, don't you think it would be watched? In the movie, Tina Chen (Janice) can be seen again in "Paper Man” (1971).
Reading a later introduction in the book by James Grady the plot was changed because of the politics of the day at the time of the film Viet Nam was out and oil was in. Also, the drug-of-choice in the book was changed.
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