Condor in the Stacks

✍ Scribed by James Grady

• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1504030389

✦ Synopsis

Short tales about deadly books, by top mystery authors

*A thrilling new novella from the bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor *

Vin, a name of convenience for the agent known as Condor, has been released from psychiatric care and is back to work. The only problem is that his work now entails the mundane job of sorting through books meant for the incinerator instead of the high-adrenaline rush of being a covert spy for the CIA. Struggling to separate hallucinations from reality, Condor attempts to immerse himself in the task at hand, but his acute sense of danger soon overwhelms him. While wandering the labyrinth of the Library of Congress’s subterranean tunnels, he encounters a damsel in distress. Someone is following her, and Condor can’t resist the lure of covert ops—or placing his own life in jeopardy.

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Review

Praise for James Grady
“Grady is a master of intrigue.” —James Grisham

“Reading the novel, I sometimes thought of Orwell’s novel ‘1984,’ sometimes of the Dylan song ‘Desolation Row.’ . . . A novel that’s supremely entertaining and a sad, important look at the United States today.” — The Washington Post on Last Days of the Condor

“Lean, edgy, and sassy . . . Grady is a master of the CIA genre.” —Kai Bird, author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

About the Author

James Grady (b. 1949) is the author of screenplays, articles, and over a dozen critically acclaimed thrillers. Born in Shelby, Montana, Grady worked a variety of odd jobs, from hay bucker to gravedigger, before graduating from the University of Montana with a degree in journalism. In 1973, after years of acquiring rejection slips for short stories and poems, Grady sold his first novel: Six Days of the Condor , a sensational bestseller which was eventually adapted into a film starring Robert Redford.

After moving to Washington, D.C. Grady worked for a syndicated columnist, investigating everything from espionage to drug trafficking. He quit after four years to focus on his own writing, and has spent the last three decades composing thrillers and screenplays. His body of work has won him France’s Grand Prix du Roman Noir, Italy’s Raymond Chandler Award, and Japan’s Baka-Misu literary prize. Grady’s most recent novel is Mad Dogs (2006). He and his wife live in a suburb of Washington, D.C.