White Flame

by James Grady

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.

Genres: Fiction

294 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

James 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.

Reviews

[Metodi Markov · Rating 1 out of 5]

Когато е излязъл този трилър, през вече далечната нам 1990 година, навярно е бил интересен за читателите си.

За съжаление, темите в него са остарели безвъзвратно и днес могат да изкарат единствено носталгична усмивка у мен.

Началото на интернет, харизматичен черен богаташ-политик и заговор за убийството му са предпоставки за създаването на добра история - мистър Грейди това го умее принципно. Но в "Брутално" не му се е получило добре, може би и заради слабо развитите герои - за нито един от тях не ми пука и след 2/3 прочетени зарязвам тази книга и продължавам напред.

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've been re-reading all of James Grady. I first read his work with "Six Days of the Condor," and proceeded from there. He did then, as now, have an unwavering, sharp eye on Washington, D.C. and it's tribal customs. Faron Sears is a black ex-con turned politician whose strident message of self-reliance has won him a growing power base. An intercepted e-mail message and a body in the Rocky Mountains all point to an assassination attempt on Sears. Too many of the characters are from central casting, from Sears to his bodyguard Monk to Sherman, a tough cop battling the bottle as well as assassins. On the plus side are a timely, politically believable plot and a white-knuckle shoot-out.

[LuAnn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not too bad. I had trouble following the writing style, but did enjoy the story.

[Robbie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn't like this one at all.

[Maggard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not enough condor