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    Last Days of the Condor: A Novel
    Last Days of the Condor: A Novel
    Last Days of the Condor: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    Last Days of the Condor: A Novel

    Written by James Grady

    Narrated by Peter Berkrot

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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 branded with the code name you made iconic: Condor.

    Everyone you care about is pulled into the gunsights. The CIA star young enough to be your daughter-she might shoot you or save you. The savvy political aide who lets love trump the law. The lonely woman your romantic dreams make a fugitive. The Middle Eastern child warrior you mentored into a master spy.

    Last Days of the Condor is the bullet-paced, ticking clock saga of America on the edge of our most startling spy world revolution since 9/11. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington, DC, shot through with sex and suspense, with secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action, with hunters and the hunted, Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck saga of America's secrets from muckraking investigative reporter and author James Grady.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateFeb 24, 2015
    ISBN9781427266569
    Last Days of the Condor: A Novel
    Author

    James Grady

    James Grady is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels and three times as many short stories. His first novel, Six Days of the Condor, became the classic Robert Redford movie Three Days of the Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor. A Mystery Writers of America Edgar finalist, he has received Italy’s Raymond Chandler Medal, France’s Grand Prix Du Roman Noir, Japan’s Baka-Misu literature award, and two Regardie's magazine short-story awards.

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    • 1/5
      Boring and way too much description narrative. Literally describes everything. Didn't care for the Narrators voice either.
    • 4/5
      Very good. Not written in the delightfully complicated style like 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.
    • 4/5
      This sequel to Three Days of the Condor (originally Six Days of the Condor) is not as good. Far too much time is spent describing the different organizations within the American security system. But the story is very good and well told, when it gets to the plot and action. A few too many characters make it tedious at times, but on the whole I did enjoy it.
    • 2/5
      A big disappointment compared to 6 Days of the Condor. Rampant paranoia packaged as real and all powerful.
    • 4/5
      3.5 out of 5 rating.

      I'll start by saying that I haven't read the other books in the series. Maybe my rating might of changed if I had read the other books, who knows. From what I see, the first few books were written in the 70's.

      I did like the characters and the book was an easy read. The Author did provide a few snippets of the past books to provide some background. The book ended off good and I would guess that it's the last or end of the series.

      I won this book in a giveaway.
    • 3/5
      I'm not really sure what I was expecting from this novel but I know it did not meet my expectations. I had a lot of nostalgia from reading the initial novel of this series back in the '70's and was hoping to be wowed again. This story seems really muddles and was actually somewhat disappointing.

      3 stars for the nostalgia of remembered characters but that is about it.
    • 2/5
      “Last Days of the Condor is a breakneck, ticking-clock saga of America on the edge of a startling spy world revolution. Set in the savage streets and Kafkaesque corridors of Washington DC, Last Days of the Condor is shot through with sex and suspense, secret agent tradecraft and full-speed action.The above was taken from the back of the book. Unfortunately for me none of it rang true.I found the story very difficult to get into and the style of writing to be vey disjointed (short almost incomplete sentences). I struggled with this style of writing which made it very hard for me to get into the story and to keep myself interested in the rest of the book. As the story progressed the plot became more enjoyable and I think it ended well.I was disappointed with this book and it took m much longer to read than a book of this genre normally would. If I was not reviewing it for Real Readers I could of easily found myself giving up on it. James Grady will not be an author that I will seek out to read in the future.
    • 4/5
      I was asked to review this book by Real Readers. The Last Days of the Condor by James Grady is the final part of a series of books on the CIA operative known to all as Condor.I found this extremely gripping and complex spy thriller what a treat this was to read. I read this on holiday and could not put it down.this is the sequel to Grady's Six Days of the Condor (1974), which was made into the film Three Days of the Condor forty years ago starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway.So forty years later, Joseph Turner is a retired spy, and in his retirement someone wants him dead. So with CIA, secret agents and a bit of sex thrown in it is an entertaining readAlthough some readers have felt they should have read the authors other books, I was able to follow the plot.A recommended good thriller.
    • 3/5
      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, with a stuttering plot and random sentences that seem to make no sense. It seems like 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 like 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 like 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 liked the Condor’s previous then you need to read this book.
    • 4/5
      If you're of a certain age, you probably sat in a movie theater and watched a handsome, young Robert Redford star in Three Days of the Condor. Now Condor is back. He's not as fast or strong, he's a 60ish spy who still has superb espionage skills and a knack for disguise, trying to figure out if there's anyone he can trust in his current situation. Lots of action, great cast of characters and a must-read espionage fans.