The novel that inspired the Robert Redford film Three Days of the CondorSandwiches save Ronald Malcolm’s 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 mean...

A cinematic and propulsive thriller from the author of Six Days Of The Condor and American Sky.Bob Dylan once declared that "Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people's attention," and readers won't be able to look away from Shadows on Sidewalks, the new erotic thriller from James Grady.James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He ...

Now on television: Condor, an AT&T Audience Network original series inspired by James Grady's first Condor novel.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 br...

The legendary CIA spy is back—in a "superb" collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).James Grady, "king of the modern espionage thriller" (George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire), first introduced his clandestine CIA operative—codename: Condor—in a debut novel that became Three Days of the Condor, ...

**The new novel from the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor—set on a heart-pounding cross-country train ride."Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"—Patrick Anderson,The Washington Post"Grady is a master of intrigue."—John Grisham**This Train races us through America's heartland, carrying secrets. There is treasure in the cargo car, along with an invisi...

The explosive short story launch for the new novel LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR"They led him out of the CIA's secret insane asylum as the sun set over autumn's forest there in Maine."Led him into a modern American nightmare any of us could face.But he's a legend, a silver-haired man codenamed Condor, a classic American hero in his first appearance since Watergate, on his way in this prequel to the upcoming novel, LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR. And it's all abo...

"Thoroughly entertaining . . . from desperate writing students in Missoula to a van of itinerant strippers working the Hi-Line paralleling the Canadian border." — Publishers WeeklyA Parade Magazine "Books We Love" PickThe Big Sky State may seem to lack the shadowy urban mazes traditional to the noir genre. But in Montana, darkness is found in the regions of the heart, driving the desperate and deadly to commit the most hei...

An action-filled coming of age novel about love, vengeance, corruption, and justice by the acclaimed author of Six Days of the Condor."Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row.'"—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post**"Grady is a master of intrigue."—John GrishamSet in 1959, the "year the music di...

In this anthology, uncover a century of dark mystery stories set in America's mighty capital.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of city-based noir anthologies launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book is compromised of stories set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city in the book. The original D.C. Noir, a groundbreaking collection of new fiction by sixteen different writers, displayed the curatorial prowess of b...

Decades after his adventure in the classic Six Days of the Condor , the eponymous spy reflects on his life while awaiting his next target in this tense novella.Ronald Malcolm, codename Condor, is still in the spy game. He may be older now, but in a world where hardly anybody sees anybody, nobody sees old. He's the perfect choice to sit in New York City's Penn Station and wait for what he calls "the killing train." And whi...

Many noir anthologies have inspired writers and publishers around the world to gather novelists to set noir stories in a city. When it comes to noir, not all cities are equal. The history of genocide and dislocation sets Phnom Penh apart from other places. What other city in modern times was emptied of all of his people at gun point, a city abandoned and left as a ghost town?The authors of Phnom Penh Noir take you inside the lives of Cambodians who carry that legacy of that fateful...

A short story of conspiracy and mayhem by the author of Six Days of the Condor, reimagining the classic spy thriller in our post-9/11 world.In this chilling short story, a CIA analyst codenamed Condor is caught in the grip of a conspiracy he can barely understand. When he finds something strange linked to a covert operation in Afghanistan, he makes the mistake of contacting his superiors. Soon after, a gunman attacks during an office coffee break, killing ...