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River Of Darkness was written in the early nineties at the end of the Cold War. It takes place both in the present and looks back on the previous twenty years as well because the answers to the current situation lays in the past.Essentially the reader is taken on a trip down memory lane. In the early ninties there were those who wondered what we were going to do with all the old skeletons from the Cold War as the secrets were gradually told.That's the heart of this novel's plot. It's not a bad l...
James Grady stormed onto the spy fiction scene in 1974 with his debut novel Six Days of the Condor (basis for the classic film Three Days of the Condor), a novel I greatly enjoyed for its paranoid take on America’s shadow government, its memorable characters Ronald Malcolm and the French assassin Joubert, and its brilliant concept of “Section 9, Department 17”--a CIA shop that reads spy novels all day, analyzing them for ideas that the Agency might apply to its own operations (nice work if you c...
I picked up the wrong book at the library! I meant to check out River of Darkness by Rennie Airth. Instead I grabbed Rivers of Darkness by James Grady, so maybe it isn't fair for me to rate it. But it sure kept me up at night. This was an old-fashioned spy story set during and after the '60s: Vietnam, Laos, Nixon, Watergate, Iran-Contra ... Gritty and really dark. Why were we in Southeast Asia anyway? What a horrible/shameful period in U.S. history. Don't know if it's any better now though, but
Даже не знаю, что сказать. Книга интересная, внутренние разборки ЦРУ, войны и прочее. По своему очень грустная, ощущается безысходность и бег по кругу. На высоте множественность персонажей их целей и жизненных линий, и реакций, когда они попадают на один перекресток. Единственное, что не дает мне отнести эту книгу к действительно очень хорошим - это какая-то странная тягучесть чтения. Читала я ее с месяц, а то и больше. Невиданная для меня медлительность, обычно книг мне хватает дня на три, но з...
I really like the movie The Six Days of the Condor, so I expected more from this book. I am wondering if I liked Robert Redford, because this book was a disappointment.Likes:* twists in the book* 3 main characters were very different and interesting: Wes Chandler, marine on special assignment; Jud Stuart, CIA special ops lethal locksmith; and Nick Kelley, journalist, spy novelist and friend of Jud's.* the end was poeticDislikes:* waaaaay too much politics for me, but they did interject real poli...
What a dark, dark book. It has several spots that are extremely poetic, though. Contrasting with Mark Helprin - no whimsy here, but the writing is superb. Better than the story. I do so love the dark poetic prose. I'd also like to compare this author to the earlier Ralph Peters novels, too - dark and poetic.The hard part is that there is no main character. Those that are developed, though, are very richy developed. It's hard to identify with a hero because you can't find one. There's a Marine Ma...
Could have been better with a bit more set upImagine that James Bond were no longer needed for Her Majesty's Secret Service so they decided to eliminate him so that he couldn't embarrass them later. This is sort of the premise of River of Darkness, except that Jud Stuart is not nearly as suave and debonair as Bond and he works for the American government.Stuart is a special forces soldier recruited by the CIA during the Vietnam war. He is involved in action in Laos, Iran, the USSR, Washington D....
Some of the strongest passages in the book were in the beginning with the VN flashbacks of Jud Stuart and the strong and relentless ending with Stuart. The rest of the book was mediocre if not boring flirting back and forth with different characters causing a bit of confusion. Although the book had potential, it was a disappointment.
