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Publication Order of Condor Books

Six Days of the Condor (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Three Days of the Condor (1974)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shadow of the Condor (1975)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
condor.net (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Last Days of the Condor (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Condor in the Stacks (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Next Day of the Condor (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Condor Collections

Condor: The Short Takes (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of John Rankin Books

Runner in the Street (1984)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hard Bargains (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Devlin Rourke Books

Razor Game (1985)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Just a Shot Away (1987)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Great Pebble Affair (1976)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Catch the Wind (1980)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Steeltown (1988)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
White Flame (1990)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
River of Darkness / The Nature of the Game (1991)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Thunder (1994)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
City of Shadows (As: James Dalton) (2000)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mad Dogs (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
This Train (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

This Given Sky (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Harold Middleton Books

The Chopin Manuscript (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Copper Bracelet (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Starling Project: An Audible Drama (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Harold Middleton books are serial thrillers which are compiled by various authors.

Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What's in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
It's in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scroll (By:Anne Perry) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Condor in the Stacks (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By:John Harvey) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Haze (By:James W. Hall) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dark Door (By:Lisa Unger) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books

The Book of Virtue (By:Ken Bruen)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scroll (By:Anne Perry)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Pronghorns of the Third Reich (By:C.J. Box)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
An Acceptable Sacrifice (By:Jeffery Deaver)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Death Leaves a Bookmark (By:William Link)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seven Years (By:Peter Robinson)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Thing (By:Laura Lippman)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of Ghosts (By:Reed Farrel Coleman)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Long Sonata of the Dead (By:Andrew Taylor)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Final Testament (By:Peter Blauner)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rides a Stranger (By:David Bell)(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
What's in a Name? (By:Thomas H. Cook)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
It's in the Book (By:Mickey Spillane)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Nature of My Inheritance (By:Bradford Morrow)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Remaindered (By:Peter Lovesey)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Compendium of Srem (By:F. Paul Wilson)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Gospel of Sheba (By:Lyndsay Faye)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sequel (By:R.L. Stine)(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book of the Lion (By:Thomas Perry)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Little Men (By:Megan Abbott)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
From the Queen (By:Carolyn Hart)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Every Seven Years (By:Denise Mina)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Citadel (By:Stephen Hunter)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Condor in the Stacks(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mystery, Inc. (By:Joyce Carol Oates)(2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Travelling Companion (By:Ian Rankin)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Haze (By:James W. Hall)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Dames Don't Sing (By:John Harvey)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reconciliation Day (By:Christopher Fowler)(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hoodoo Harry (By:Joe R. Lansdale)(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Pretty Little Box (By:Charles Todd)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository (By:John Connolly)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hemingway Valise (By:Robert Olen Butler)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Honest Horse Thief (By:Michael Koryta)(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Book Case (By:Nelson DeMille)(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Dark Door (By:Lisa Unger)(2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Akashic Noir Books

Brooklyn Noir (By:Tim McLoughlin) (2004)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Havana Noir (By:Achy Obejas) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Las Vegas Noir (By:Jarret Keene) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Trinidad Noir (By:Elizabeth Nunez) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Istanbul Noir (By:Tarkan Barlas) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paris Noir (By:Aurélien Masson) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
San Francisco Noir 2 (By:Peter Maravelis) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Portland Noir (By:Monica Drake) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Delhi Noir (By:Hirsh Sawhney,Irwin Allan Sealy) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mexico City Noir (By:Paco Ignacio Taibo II) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Indian Country Noir (By:Sarah Cortez) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Moscow Noir (By:Irina Denezhkina) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Philadelphia Noir (By:Carlin Romano) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Barcelona Noir (By:Achy Obejas) (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
St. Petersburg Noir (By:Pavel Krusanov) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kansas City Noir (By:Steve Paul,Kevin Prufer) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Boston Noir 2 (By:Jaime Clarke) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Helsinki Noir (By:James Thompson) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tel Aviv Noir (By:Assaf Gavron) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Chicago Noir: The Classics (By:Joe Meno) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Zagreb Noir (By:Nada Gašić) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Buffalo Noir (By:Kim Chinquee) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Marseille Noir (By:Salim Hatubou) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Beirut Noir (By:Abbas Beydoun) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stockholm Noir (By:Nathan Larson) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Rio Noir (By:Tony Bellotto) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Brussels Noir (By:Sara Doke) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
San Juan Noir (By:Mayra Santos-Febres) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Oakland Noir (By:JerryThompson) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Montana Noir (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Buenos Aires Noir (By:Ernesto Mallo) (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
São Paulo Noir (By:Tony Bellotto) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hong Kong Noir (By:Susan Blumberg- Kason) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Houston Noir (By:Gwendolyn Zepeda) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Milwaukee Noir (By:Reed Farrel Coleman) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Nairobi Noir (By:Peter Kimani) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Addis Ababa Noir (By:Maaza Mengiste) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Belgrade Noir (By:Vesna Goldsworthy) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Accra Noir (By:Nana Brew-Hammond) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paris Noir: The Suburbs (By:Cloé Mehdi) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Unusual Suspects(1996)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Son of Retro Pulp Tales(2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Home Improvement: Undead Edition(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Gargoyle 57(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Inherit the Dead(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Just to Watch Them Die(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Invisible Blood(2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Reports from the Deep End(2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

James Grady was born in 30th April 1949, in Shelby, Montana, a field of tough oil, railroad, and farming town clinging to the prairie 60 miles East of the Rocky Mountains. The area is a half an hour drive south of Canada. For most of his youth age, his father managed movie theaters and his mother was a country library. He was a bookish, movie going kid who enjoyed playing football in high school. He went to public schools as well as worked while still studying. Grady once worked as a grave digger, rock picker, farm tractor jockey, hay bucker, motion picture projectionist and city road crew laborer. James Grady graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism with a degree in Journalism.

In 1985, Grady married Bonnie Goldstein, who is a private detective, senate aide, network TV producer and a writer. They have two children: Rachel, an Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, and Nathan, a college student in San Francisco. Rachel Grady is also a director of the documentary Jesus Camp. Unless he is working on a Hollywood project, he works out of their house, enjoys T’ai-chi, swimming, listening to progressive rock ‘n’ roll, read, goes to movies and do his best to obey the voices screaming inside him in order to write their stories. Writing captured him early as he could dictate stories to his mother when he was at the age of 5 and wrote his Senior class play when in high school. He was used to collecting enough rejection slips from magazines for his short stories and poems to help him build a fire. James Grady lives together with his family in his home located in a quiet suburb of Washington, D.C.

He has been lucky enough to be an American Edgar nominee, while France awarded him the Grand Prix Du Roman Noir in 2001. Italy gave him the Raymond Chandler award in 2003. In the same year (2003), he was honored receive an Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Montana, Missoula. His novel, MAD DOGS, received Japan’s Baka-Misu literary awards in 2008.

In 1971, he was lucky to get a job as a staff aide for the constitutional convention that rewrote Montana’s core document. He later worked as a juvenile delinquency analyst which he later left to join fiction writing, a move that scared everyone.

James Grady wrote the first novel by the title Six Days of the Condor. The novel was first published by W.W. Norton in 1974. The novel became a huge bestseller and in a short order, an iconic, Oscar nominated film entitled Three Days of the Condor, (1975) starring Robert Redford. The story is a suspense drama set in contemporary Washington, D.C. and is different from the 1975 version of the film, Three Days of the Condor. In the novel, Grady acts as Ronald Malcolm, who is a CIA employee. He works in a clandestine operations’ office in Washington, D.C. where he is responsible for analyzing the plots of mystery and spy novels. One day, when he should be in office, Malcolm slips out of through the entrance to the basement for lunch. In his absence, a group of men who are heavily armed gain entrance to the office and kill everyone inside. When Malcolm returns from his lunch, he realizes he is in grave danger and calls a phone number at CIA headquarters that he has been given for emergencies.

When the call goes through, where he remembers to give his code name ‘Condor’, he is told to meet an agent named Weatherby who will bring him in for protection. However, Weatherby is part of the rogue group within the CIA that is responsible for the original assassinations. Weatherby tries to kill him, but Malcolm manages to escape with his life. Malcolm uses his wits to elude both the proper CIA authorities and the rogue CIA group, each of which would very much like to find him first.

When seeking shelter, Malcolm kidnaps a paralegal by the name Wendy Ross who he overhears intends to spend her coming vacation days holed up in her apartment hence he knows that nobody will notice her absence. He quickly wins her trust and she eventually helps him in his quest to stay alive and get to know more about the forces after him. Wendy is later shot and seriously wounded while trying to help Malcolm. Malcolm knows that she is dead, but later learns that she has survived.

It later turns out that the rogue CIA group was using the section where Malcolm works to import illegal drugs from Laos. A supervisor stumbles on the discrepancy in the records and this result from clandestine drug importation, leading to the section to be eliminated.

The second novel in the series by Grady was titled Shadow of the Condor. The novel was released in 1978. In this novel, he expanded the action geographically to include Soviet Union and Communist China. On the seventh day sequel, Ronald Malcolm is returning to the field from grad school when an Air Force intelligence officer is assassinated in the middle of a missile site I northern Montana. Having been reactivated by the CIA to serve as a decoy, the birdbrained tyro is kidnapped by Chinese agents. The agents use him to locate a treacherous KGB foe. At this time, the soviets have sacrificed one of their own GRU agents so that they can divert attention from their covert operation Gamayun. The Shadow stands for the surveillance and obfuscation and this is all too circuitous.

The condor series by James Grady made Robert Redford release an iconic movie to create completion with him. Realizing this, James Grady did not want to compete with Robert and that great work of art they did and had to let the series go and went on doing a number of other novels. A scarier phenomenon emerged when it was brought to his attention that the specific plot device he had employed for killing scenes in Six Days of the Condor, involving a disguised mailman had been used to a devastating effect by Iranian spies to murder an Iranian dissident living in Bethesda, Maryland, not far from his home.

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