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... the first 50 pages or so (really 35, because the author couldn't write a 300 page book so he had to start around page 15). I couldn't understand what kind of a publishing company would put out money to print this hard to read slog of a "spy thriller", and then I read that the author wrote a pretty good book...over thirty years ago, when he was in his 20s.
Imagine a book about double-dealings, which never changes the setting (Washington, DC the whole time), has people tracking others from GPS on their phone, where it's dangerous to go outside because you might be watched...sound boring and unoriginal enough? That's what's in this book. Really disappointed.4 s Lance CharnesAuthor 7 books94

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, this is supposedly the sunset installment in author James Grady's 41-year-running, three-episode Condor series, which most people know about through its silver-screen adaptation Three Days of the Condor. It's not that Grady's been slacking -- he's written a dozen or so other thrillers and police procedurals. But Condor is the one that made his name and fortune, and after a looooooong absence, his senior-citizen spook has one more run in Washington D.C.'s mean streets left in him.

The setup is fairly simple: Condor cracked up some while ago, went into an adult-care facility for impaired ex-agents, and has finally been released with a bag full of psychotropic meds to lead a quiet life at the Library of Congress. He has an apartment within walking distance of work and a pair of CIA minders who make sure he stays put and comfortably numb. When one of the minders gets dead in that apartment, Condor has to skip out, join forces with the other minder, and outrun the people who set him up and the other people who want to retire his file kinetically.

Condor's the kind of character you can probably relate to better when you have more than a few miles under your own belt. (Alec Leamas in Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold worked that way for me.) He suffers from not only the general indignities of age, but also from his misfiring memory and the general deadening effects of the bagful of drugs that make up his chemical leash. As he runs for his life through D.C., he slowly weans himself from the worst of the pharma to regain some of his previous self, though not all. He has a fractured way of looking at things and a train of thought prone to side trips and occasional unscheduled station stops.

His reluctant ally, Agent Faye, is a reasonably realistic, damaged operative who has her own demons to contend with as she tries to keep Condor out of many sets of crosshairs. She's half his age, but the author wisely avoids tossing them into either a situationally inappropriate romance or a father/daughter relationship. She reminds me of female cops and military personnel I've known in the past: a stew of tough, frustrated, angry, and insecure cooked up while navigating a very male world. I'd happily read a story starring Faye.

The settings -- all in D.C. or its suburbs, tending toward offices, apartments, and Metro stations -- seem real enough (they track with the places I've personally visited) without a great deal of description. The action comes in short, nasty, authentically confusing bursts. The agent- and spook-speak seems real enough; the few bits I looked up or already knew track with how the terms are used in real life. The free-floating paranoia is atmospheric in its own way.

So why only three stars?

The author's prose is highly idiosyncratic. Broken sentences and paragraphs, POV and tense shifts in the same paragraph, tangents on tangents, and unusual word usages make for some rough going at times, especially if you're a grammar purist. I can't say whether this is Grady's house style or he cooked it up for this book. It could work as a reflection of Condor's mental state if it appeared only in Condor's POV, but it runs throughout. You'll work hard for this story.

This is, as mentioned, the third in a series. I haven't read the other two and I feel I lack some important information to make sense of the references and situation. I had an especially hard time deciphering the denouement; it seemed packed with artifacts from the previous books and made little effort to clue in us newcomers.

While Condor's brain and other vital organs are running rough, his reflexes have apparently not declined despite his lengthy stay in a federal birdcage. As he comes off the meds, he's able to take on baddies far younger than he, shoot straight, notice things his younger, more operationally current compatriots don't, and even get it on with a sexy senior lady during a lull in the action (not a spoiler -- you'll know the moment they meet). Does this make sense? Not especially, but this would probably end up as a short story with an unhappy ending if it didn't happen. My question: how would a veteran operative in the twilight of his years compensate for slowing reflexes and a more fragile body? That question remains unanswered.

Last Days of the Condor takes an interesting premise -- an over-the-hill spy on the run from a new, feral world he helped create -- and through its own quirks makes it less enjoyable than it should be. There is, though, a certain bravado to its execution and enough humanity in its protagonists to keep it from being a fizzled experiment. If you read either of the previous Condor books, you should probably also read this one to catch up with the character; if you haven't, you should read at least Six Days of the Condor so you have some idea what's going on. If nothing else, you'll think differently of those nice people toiling away in the Library of Congress, cataloguing books in between wet work.fiction-espionage-intrigue reviewed2 s Diana Belchase99 1 follower

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 is written in a quasi- stream-of-consciousness style that provides great insight into the mind of a confused individual. gripping and highly recommended.3 s Fredrick Danysh6,844 180

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 Mash and Catch 22.3 s Gfdfrogman11

not good3 s Paul888 74

Last Days of the Condor – Not So Thrilling

Last 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 it was a book to far, as it seemed to have lost its swagger from the earlier books, which were excellent, this feels 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, with a stuttering plot and random sentences that seem to make no sense. It seems Grady was bored while writing this final outing for the Condor, which is a shame as he is such an excellent writer where intrigue and thriller rushes are concerned.

Vin aka Condor is a broken man who now works at the Library of Congress, when he is leaving work one day he is aware that he is being tailed to where he lives but takes no evasive action. When he gets to his rented house he goes through his security precautions out of habit.

Condor can no longer remember most of the work that he has done for the CIA and has recently been released from a dark site institution from where he was recovering from some sort of breakdown. Homeland Security keeps a check on him and make sure that he is safe and secure at home. One of those Agents, Peter does not Condor and has no sympathy with him and has to take a random drug test which his fellow Agent Faye challenges him on.

When Peter turns up dead at Condor’s house so begins Condor’s fight for survival especially when your former employers designate you as an enemy of that Agency, you are aware that they will send assassins to eradicate you as a problem. This is his race for survival, but an onion Grady unravels the many layers of the American ‘Intelligence’ community.

This is not one of James Grady’s best book, seems rather disjointed as if written under sufferance but if you d the Condor’s previous then you need to read this book.
spy-thrillers2 s John Mccormick586 6

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 hero is older and slower these days, who isn’t but the brains and espionage skills still fully functioning.
This story is set in Washington and the author gives a great feel and insight to the sights and sounds of the American capital, his characters interesting and well drawn I felt real sympathy for our hero coming to terms with his old aged bodies failings but thrilled in his brains ability to compensate and overcome all in his quest to solve the problems he faces in the book.
The writing is sharp and staccato never dull, and there is a terrific set piece shoot out in the subway.
True sometimes the descriptions of equipment being used is confusing even disturbing and perhaps overdone, but with modern day world of computers controlling and overseeing all, but we all know this out there and happens today
The book is a stand alone novel and your enjoyment of it will be spoilt if you have not read any of the previous books.
P.S. Is Robert Redford too old to play Condor if this book is turned into a film?
2 s Bill363

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.2 s Neil1,184 13

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 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 up to speed. I do not think the character development was the best; there was a lot of information given about a lot of characters who never had any part in the book. It was kind of odd. The punctuation and sentence structure was odd, to, and threw off the book's pacing off as well. I cared more about a couple of peripheral characters who got sucked into the whole mess more than I did the primary two characters, which was kind-of sad, in my opinion. I would have d to have cared more about the main character than I did and wished it felt his life was actually in danger instead of wondering how he was going to solve 'the mystery' and 'beat the bad guys' by the end of the book. I also found myself wondering when his "partner" was going to get killed off, too, the way people were coming and dying throughout the course of the book.

This book seemed to take a page from the first book [from what I remember of it], except that somebody wants Condor removed from the playing field even though he has turned into a "no-name employee" in a "dead-end job" with no future in sight. It is one of those novels about how there's some kind of "top secret government agency" that sanctions killing the people that a program or algorithm somehow determines how dangerous a person is or may be or may become. It felt a very paranoid novel; that might be due to the "first-person views" of the Condor as he is trying to detoxify himself from the various medications he has been taking; during this period of "detox" he runs a gamut of hallucinations, nightmares, and hearing voices before it all stops and he starts to remember things he should not be remembering. The "bad guys" seem to be twenty steps ahead of our hero, but it does them no good as they are all handily dispatched by a sixtysome-year old, formerly heavily medicated agent they must be habitually underestimating because of the ease with which he is able to kill those trying to kill him [with the "obligatory survivors" that are killed "later" by the hero]. The whole book almost felt a paranoid delusion or bizarre dream episode, it was so filled with various individuals trying to figure out if a stranger was truly an innocent bystander or a member of a team of assassins getting ready to strike the hero dead.

In some respects, it did remind me of Lee Child's books about Jack Reacher, except that I would say Lee Child does a better job on most days. It also reminded me of the movie with Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts, where he plays some kind of soldier-spy who was being forced to take meds because he knew too much about some "top-secret" government organization he was trying to expose to the world at large. This novel takes the stance that this organization cannot be exposed because of the damage its exposure can cause to the reputation of the United States and its various intelligence-gathering agencies, so changes are made to the organization to ensure the circumstances in the book [including the killing of innocent bystanders and torture of innocent parties] do not happen again.

In some respects, it did remind me of Confessions of an Economic Hitman in that fantastic claims are made and the author shows how dots from disparate events can be connected to create a new narrative for what happened. When we read about a news event in the paper or online where somebody dies or something "happens", how do we really know that what we are reading is THE TRUTH and not just some fictional account created to hide what really happened? How can we believe what we are reading when it can be so easily distorted and misrepresented by those "paragons of virtue", the various forms of news media [be they newspapers, CNN, or the internet]? It really is a paranoid tale about paranoid individuals and government agencies so secret that there is no "official" or "unofficial" record of their existence, and yet this agency [or these agencies] can decide who lives and who dies with impunity.

Anyway. It was a crazy book with a lot of crazy action in it. I do not know how believable it is. It also has a couple of crazy-intense 'sex scenes' in it that were nuts [not "disgusting, degrading nuts" but just "intense"]. I did the discussion about how code names are reused by multiple agents over time; there might be five agents over five decades who all went by the same code name; so to ask if "code name: Condor" is still alive can be answered with both "yes and no" because it was used before and is in current usage. I did Merle; she was pretty cool and I would to meet somebody her in real life. hahahahah The "main characters" were so paranoid, though! It almost took away from the story. It was an okay mystery-suspense-thriller as Condor was trying to figure out who wanted to kill him and why while attempting to cleanse himself from his meds the Feds were feeding him to make him "forget' whatever it was they wanted him to forget i.e. - that he was the one responsible for this government agency that decided who lived and who died without any kind of oversight and he went crazy, which got him dropped from the program and fed meds to make him forget. Also, apparently Condor called in a drone strike on himself to fake his own death while taking out some bad guys; he survived the drone strike but became certifiable as a result, which led to his being dropped from the program and becoming heavily medicated as a result. I really hope that if a new book is released, Merle is in it and is still in a relationship with Condor.

It was not nearly as good as the first book [most sequels never are], and I cannot say how good it was in comparison to the second book [or even the third book]. I am glad that I read it, although I wish I had read the two intervening books first as I think they would have helped "stuff" in this novel make more sense. Not enough information is given to really get a feel for what happened "in the past" with Condor. It was an okay book to read; it was entertaining, and the ending is a bit hard core I got the feeling that the "woman in charge" that Condor killed with his bare hands instead of with his pistol was a former associate-lover or handler-lover and his former superior-lover, regardless. He kills her and is offered the chance to take her place in this program he had helped to create in a "past life" of his as a former "super spy" for the CIA. I did how Condor was forty years older than he was in the first book; that was pretty cool and something I appreciated [so often, authors keep their characters "forever young"]. It was a crazy book to read; I do not know how much "fun" it was to read, but it was entertaining. I am glad I read it at least once hahahaha.fiction finished-in-2018 mystery ...more1 Tom Place67

This book has some harsh , but as a fan of both the Condor book series as well as the film I really enjoyed this. While the writing style is certainly different and apparently threw some people off, I loved it. An excellent gunfight - a la Heat - where as I read it I could hear the loud gunshots ring out in the silence, was truly captivating and very well written. A solid book and a fitting final chapter in the life of Condor. 1 Kerry Bridges702 9

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 help me understand this book any better, but it presumably might so if you do fit those categories you may enjoy it a lot more than I did. Sadly, I really did not enjoy it at all.

Firstly, I don't books which are not written in full, proper sentences. I understand that this was done to add drama and make the story feel as if it was going at break neck speed, but I found it very staccato in structure and struggled to keep up with what was going on as it all seemed to flash past so quickly.

I also felt that the way that the speeches were written was rather confusing. Again, I am sure this was to add to the feeling of drama, but often someone was speaking and then there were more speech marks on their own, but it turned out to be the same person. I found this a distraction rather than adding to the suspense for me, but of course, others may have a different opinion.

Finally, I just didn't think much of ths story. There was such a lot of action and so much happened, but the story didn't progress at all. I found myself not looking forward to sitting down and reading it, because I knew there was such a lot to get through before anything meaningful happened. It might have helped if I had any sympathy with any of the characters, but I felt this went by the way side in favour of more action which meant that there was not much chance to get to know them very well and therefore to really care what happened to any of them. I think this is the second book about Condor, so maybe there is an assumption that we know him from the first book, but I haven't read it so I could not say if that was the case or not.

All in all, I found this book very frustrating. I really enjoy a good thriller, and I think there is probably an interesting story in there. Unfortunately, it just wasn't written in a way that was able to appeal to me.1 Pierre-emmanuel318 11

N'ayant pas lu les romans précédents, difficile de comparer et d'apprécier la manière dont l'auteur maltraite son personnage. En tout cas le rythme, l'intrigue et l'écriture sont plaisants et donnent envie de découvrir les premiers romans. L'intrigue n'est pas extraordinaire, mais on est dans le thriller qui accroche.américain espion1 Stephanie910 15

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.1 Emily1 review4

Riveting, pulse-pounding and genre-bending!!! But I am James Grady's publicist at Tor/Forge, so I'm a bit biased!1 Matt7

Stopped after chapter 5. Dialogue is disjointed jerky camera work in a movie. Gratuitous foul language. 1 Wdmoor695 13

Just all right. Too many short, one sentence paragraphs to give a revved up vibe that just left this reader annoyed.assassins thriller1 John Richards117 1 follower

One star is overly generous. The worst book I have ever read. Convoluted mishmash. No serious plotting or characterization. I will avoid anymore of James Grady's books. 1 Thrillers R Us359 23



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 North America, also making present day Condor a legend in his own mind.

First making an appearance in the novels of H.P. Lovecraft and most often erroneously attributed to DC Batman comics, the Arkham Asylum is the template for a place where the CIA sequesters those employees deemed a threat to the nation, the agency, and to themselves. With Condor shaving pills and hiding info in plain sight, the only thing missing in this free range sanitarium is Nurse Ratchet. But once a spy, always a spy. Or better yet, a PINSS - person in need of security surveillance. That said, the Condor is back: silver haired but still sharp as a tack. To start things off, the reader is escorted through a SDR on Condor's way home. Recently released from the CIA's secret insane asylum, he's not dodging spies but quasi parole officers. In a medley between THE FIFTH ELEMENT's rousting of citizens control check and a cranky PO, the arrows point to a giant ruse. Condor is crazy, right? Right, right, right? Or wait, everyone else is crazy, or better, the System is crazy.

Condors mate for life, so it's no surprise that Condor is still loyal to the Intelligence game in general and the CIA in specific. The agency, however, trusts Condor as far as it can throw him, earning Malcolm a minder. She's a capable, tough, and frustrated female agent in a male dominated world. Agent Faye doesn't serve as a prop or the love interest, and it makes LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR that much better for it. Playing off the young and old contrast following sixty-odd years of wear and tear, Condor is more than his diagnoses. Certified as ready to re-enter service, he's got a new job--at the Library of Congress in the Grave Cave, the final resting place of all kinds of fiction usually arriving in crates. Relegated to the basement, out of view and harm, Milton, he's the boss, the master of his domain, the King of his OFFICE SPACE.

Trying to elevate the SPY GAME and the thriller to soaring heights, James Grady comes gunning out of left field. It could be seen as too much tradecraft and knowledge attempting to be the real deal; perhaps too real. THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR is reading an Agency After Action Report and is a prime example of 'keeping it real gone horribly wrong'. On top of that, the dialogue feels movie scenes that've been edited too much, where there's meaning but no connective tissue. Seemingly constructed with a hacksaw and P36 FEPA grade sandpaper, dialogue is often difficult to follow and could only be described as 'confabulatio interruptus'. Cancelling all speech, the prose should be able to hold its own, but the reader, again, is left in lurch. There are truncated sentences, dropped thoughts, shifts in tense and POV galore to get this book kicked out of almost any respectable library.

Condor, the legend inside a legend was always best at one thing: the wild idea. A definite walk on the wild side, THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR is a succinct spy thriller that titillates with genuine Ground Branch lingo and Langley vernacular Elevated Exposure Costs (EEC), brick men, and "clong"--though what that is will forever drift in the foggy lore of national intelligence. Don't walk drag, get THE LAST DAYS OF THE CONDOR and soar into a thriller you've never seen or read. a bat out of hell and perhaps for the last time, Condor is flying again. Bob Ryan536 2

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 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 story, more of the main character. More of this unusual way of telling a story. But it ended.
Not quite. After the ending, there's a forty page prequel of the period of time directly before the main story began that includes some background that explains the incoherency I mentioned earlier. The prequel is also a story in itself, a story of such violence it's almost unimaginable. But the writing style is so gripping you can't put it down. Once you've read it you understand why it wasn't presented as the beginning of the main story. It would have destroyed the effectiveness of the beginning of the book entirely.
I leave this book a new fan of Mr. Grady and will search out his other writings. Philip1,528 92

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 is to allow us mere mortals to experience those dark corners of the world that we will probably never get to see in person - so a spy thriller set completely in Washington DC has to be WAY better than this in order for me to see it through.

SPOILER: Okay, so based on other , I did peek ahead to the end of the next chapter and yes, the plot does pick up - but with a creepy, Lecter-esque murder that involves body posing and mutilation - what is it with removing eyes and/or penises? - so, yeah...I'm good.fiction-standalone protagonists-old set-in-dc-wma ...more Dan Yurman1 review

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 myself who once lived and worked in DC, the landscape was familiar enough to add to the story. The author apparently d 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 would have d some more details on the back story of the main character, e.g., why did the bad guys want him so badly? The main heroine has lots of demons from "ops" gone wrong in the past which makes her interesting and also vulnerable. She is better hewn as a literary figure than the main guy that all the fuss is about.

Otherwise, you could probably and enjoyably blast through this on one LA-NY flight or bleak winter weekend in our apparently never ending plague year. Alex Gherzo300 11

Last Days of the Condor catches up with James Grady's reluctant spy decades after his early adventures. Condor snapped somewhere along the way and has spent the past several years in an insane asylum for spies (which is the basis for a much better Grady book, Mad Dogs) and is now on a sort of work release program. But when he's framed for murder, Condor goes on the run again.

The story is a retread of Six Days of the Condor, with Condor running from the CIA and trying to figure out who the real bad guys are. But this one feels slower, with less interesting characters. And the solution is very silly, undermining the suspense and stretching credulity too far.

I did the prose, however, which conveys Condor's shattered and scattered mind. The action scenes are also described well, particularly one in the DC subway. But overall, the book feels Grady wanted to bring Condor back but had no idea what to do with him. Disappointing. False2,370 10

I found this book to be hugely disappointing. The style of writing looked a novice author trying to write a seasoned writer of this genre. The writing comes across choppy, confusing and hard to follow. Reading the first few chapters I couldn’t tell if what Condor was experiencing was real or imagined, or whether he was in the present or having a flashback. I found myself having to go back and reread some of the pages to try and maintain some type of continuity in what I was reading. The plot of the story is obscure and the ending droll.

Here’s an example, the last four sentences read: “Heard the clunk, saw the slow swing of gaping metal create a choice for her,”

“A waiting engine rumbled in that gray light.”

“As she stared at the car’s empty front passenger shotgun seat.”

“At the car’s open door.”

‘nuf said.fiction mystery-suspense-spy-intelligence politics ...more Bill YanceyAuthor 18 books84

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 that first might make sense, if you gratuitous violence. Deborah Gebhardt730 4

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 now, wait a minute I bet he looks Robert Redford. Bill Lawrence300 4

Too much detail, too little plot.

I read 6 Days of the Condor as the film is great. The book was fine and I enjoyed it. This is just not interesting and focuses on moment by moment descriptions of action whether having a shower or a gun battle showdown. Ultimately, it becomes rather tedious and not as well written as the earlier book. The good bit - you can scan/skip large chunks and not feel you've missed anything. But better not to start.thriller Terry Hinkley119

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. Norman Birnbach119 21

For fans of "Three Days of the Condor" and Grady's original novel, "Six Days of the Condor," it will be interesting to see Condor in a contemporary setting. And if you've read Grady's other recent ebooks about Condor, this novel fills in details, serving as a nice epilogue. That said, if you're unfamiliar with Condor, you should start with Grady's earlier books.finished Tom377

Very good. Not written in the delightfully complicated style le Carré, but the plot becomes very nicely, grandly complicated. The style, by the bye, is a kind of interesting mix of stream of consciousness and narrative between and among the characters. And, fun. Bhargavi14

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