Riveting, pulse-pounding and genre-bending!!! But I am James Grady's publicist at Tor/Forge, so I'm a bit biased!

Condor used to work for the security services but he had a breakdown and now lives in an apartment in Washington. Faye and Bald Peter are the team checking on him one night when a white car starts watching. Faye isn't sure, but Peter doesn't think anything of it. Then Peter's body is found on Condor's apartment, and Faye and Condor must risk everything to get to safety.I have to start by saying I am neither American nor have any relationship with any secret services. I have no idea if this would...

We rarely see fictional covert operatives when they're old enough to qualify for Medicare. They either stay 38 through their entire series (a la James Bond), or they age chronologically but not physically, mentally, or behaviorally (such as Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon). So what exactly does happen to a spy when his memory goes and he can't make it through a night's sleep anymore without bathroom breaks?Well, apparently people still want to kill him, if we judge from Last Days of the Condor.Yes,...

I received the book for free through Goodreads Giveaways. Another author that I started reading because I saw a movie based on their book. I read Six Days of the Condor (on which Three Days of the Condor the movie was based) in 1975 and its sequel Shadow of the Condor in 1976. So its been a long, long time to find out what has happened to the Condor. Reading the book I wonder what the Condor would look like now, wait a minute I bet he looks like Robert Redford.

The former spy code named Condor is living is living in a witness protection program following his release from a mental institution. Following a routine home check by federal agents, Condor returns home from work to find one of the agents tortured and dead in his house. He goes on the run in Washington, D.C., as both the real killer and the federal agencies are gunning for him. His only chance is the female agent who made the home inspection. The story is off beat and think of movies like Mash

I was sent a copy of this novel to review by real readers. Unfortunately with not reading the earlier books I had to put it down unfinished. Some books you don't need to read in order but I think in this case you do.

Coined by Stephen King in 1988's THE DARK HALF, the inevitable return of Ronald Malcolm was augured by the chilling phrase that "the sparrows are flying again..." Meaning that you can't keep a good man down or an old bird from flying, THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR is the swan song of the CIA legend first introduced in James Grady's seminal SIX DAYS OF THE CONDOR. Far from the diminutive avian species cruising the mind of George Stark, the California Condor is the largest flying land bird in No

Interesting. Entertaining. Not as good as I remember "Six Days of the Condor" (later the movie "Three Days of the Condor"). Don't know who edited it and decided to frequently and repeatedly divide a single speaker's dialogue into unnecessary multiple paragraphs, but it makes it darn hard to figure out who is speaking at times. Slows down the story and aggravates the reader, too. The tacked on 'Short-story Prequel' "Next Day of the Condor" was probably the original beginning of the book. Reading

Once again James Grady delivers a fascinating look into the life of a covert agent. This book isn't as good as Six Days of the Condor – – it's better! It has the polish and elegance of a writer who is now mature and at his best . His craft is finely honed and written in an untraditional, interesting style. Often writers are admonished to trust the reader, to know they can figure things out between the lines. Not only has Mr. Grady done this, but he forces the reader to also trust him. His prose

First of all, I am being generous giving this book two measly stars.This short novel, at barely 300 pages, could have been so much more of everything. The author wrote in a first/third person point of view that flips back and forth with italics print and a regular narration. To further complicate things, he writes in the present and past tense WITHIN THE SAME PARAGRAPHS. The sentence fragments, while crafty in nature, are hard to follow at times...like the first 50 pages or so (really 35, becaus...

I hope the title of this book is wrong, because I want more of the Condor please.The six days of the condor was originally published some 40 years ago give or take, jeez am I that old, I read that original book in my teens, and saw the reduced filmed version three days of the condor with a young Robert Redford in the starring role, both were excellent.So I was thrilled to be asked to read and review this book by Real Readers, and I was not disappointed, this is an excellent thriller. True our he...

This was an okay book. I read the first book [Six Days of the Condor] back in the late 1980s and had an opportunity to pick up and read the second book [Shadow of the Condor] but failed to do so. It looks like there might be a "third" book in the series that is an ebook, so I will probably never read it. The title for this book indicates it is the "final" book in the series, and that would probably be a good thing. It moves at a pretty quick pace, overall, but it does take a bit for it to build

Just couldn't stick it out - had to surrender around page 60. Odd writing style that made it difficult to follow, combined with no plot development at the 20% point was just a deal-breaker...life's too short.I picked this up mainly because (A) I remember the first book (or at least the Robert Redford film version) being pretty good, and (B) I really enjoy action/adventure stories with an old (or at least older) protagonist. At the same time, however, one of the key pleasures of any spy thriller

Last Days of the Condor – Not So ThrillingLast Days of the Condor from James Grady is the final part of a series of books on the CIA operative known to all as Condor. To me this seemed like it was a book to far, as it seemed to have lost its swagger from the earlier books, which were excellent, this feels like it was forced to be written by a hungry publisher wanting more. James Grady prose is usually so easy flowing and enjoyable to read but in the Last Days of the Condor seems to be laboured,

I'm not sure why James Grady decided to write this uneven, disjointed volume that seemingly ends the Condor story--or why a publisher elected to publish it. There was a confusing plot, cardboard characters, and no effort to engage the reader. I was deeply disappointed as the two earlier books were well written.

Stopped after chapter 5. Dialogue is disjointed like jerky camera work in a movie. Gratuitous foul language.

Just all right. Too many short, one sentence paragraphs to give a revved up vibe that just left this reader annoyed.

I admit it, for the first 100 pages, I didn't get it. I didn't grasp the character, the story seemed muddled, the dialogue sketchy and disconnected. I stopped and read the "one-star" Goodreads reviews and I was ready to give up on this book. Then there was a scene of violence that focused the plot and I continued the book. As I did, the characters became more interesting, especially the main character. The plot became tighter, the action increased and the ending left me wanting more. More of the...

This is an entertaining yarn with all the required elements of a page turning spy v. spy thriller. My only quibble with it is that there is a bit too much local color in the story which could have been trimmed down a bit. For people like myself who once lived and worked in DC, the landscape was familiar enough to add to the story. The author apparently liked diving into the minute details of it hence the extra helping for readers who are wondering about the geography of some of the action. I wou...

Loved the suspense and action sequences in this book, but the dialogue between characters was confusing. Have never had this type of problem with James Grady's books before or any other book for that matter. I had to go back and re-read on numerous occasions. It was hard to follow who was talking, when they stopped and when another character replied.