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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.
- GenresFiction
400 pages, Paperback
First published March 18, 1994
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About the author
James Grady
91 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 20, 2015
This is a seriously flawed book. If you liked Grady's earlier works, forget this one.
Grady is at his best when he describes settings and the people in them. You can tell that he enjoys doing so, or at least did in his earlier works.
In this work he evidently discovered the sentence fragment, the incomplete sentence, as a means of filling up pages perhaps to meet the requirements of a book advance from his publisher. Whatever the reason the result is page after page of fragments of thoughts and descriptions.
Used effectively, and rarely, a sentence fragment can be an effective tool. Used over and over and over it is the mark of a poor or lazy writer.
The sex scenes are also gratuitous and predictable. Another required element of the modern novel I suppose. But they add no depth to the characters or the plot.
Stick to his early work. Or find another crime novel author; there are plenty.
Grady is at his best when he describes settings and the people in them. You can tell that he enjoys doing so, or at least did in his earlier works.
In this work he evidently discovered the sentence fragment, the incomplete sentence, as a means of filling up pages perhaps to meet the requirements of a book advance from his publisher. Whatever the reason the result is page after page of fragments of thoughts and descriptions.
Used effectively, and rarely, a sentence fragment can be an effective tool. Used over and over and over it is the mark of a poor or lazy writer.
The sex scenes are also gratuitous and predictable. Another required element of the modern novel I suppose. But they add no depth to the characters or the plot.
Stick to his early work. Or find another crime novel author; there are plenty.
December 18, 2008
This is a fairly by-the-numbers political thriller; a CIA agent's partner gets killed under mysterious circumstances and he starts an underground investigation to find out why. Unfortunately, it completely failed to draw me in; I gave up after reading 100 pages I just didn't find myself caring about any of the characters or anything that was happening to them. As a result, the intrigue parts of the book came across as dull. The action sequences are done with lots of sentence fragments, which came across as overwrought, like Grady was trying to imitate a fast-cut action movie style.
August 29, 2009
OK; CIA Mystery, agent searching for partner's killer; Wouldn't bother with others by author
April 26, 2015
fast-paced, a little disjointed in places, yet pretty much all "comes together" in the wrap-up -- looking forward to reading Grady's 2nd book of spy/intrigue
June 8, 2024
Great story but hard to follow with so many characters. Also, seemed like a rushed ending. Not enough explanation as to why the bad guy was bad. Otherwise, would probably make a good movie like Six Days of The Condor.
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