Three Days of the Condor (Six Days of the Condor)

By James Grady

Book Overview

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• Format: Unknown Binding
• ISBN: B000L1UAP8
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Dell
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Run Condor run.

Condor is the code name for Ronald Malcolm, an employee of the CIA. His mission is to read, read everything he can to see if any subversive codes are being posted in innocuous-looking literature. He discovers that the number of packages shipped to his location does not match the bill of lading. He brings this to the attention of his superiors. One day, he leaves by an unrecorded, unauthorized back door for lunch. On returning, he finds everyone dead. Who did this, and who can he trust? To survive, he must use his wits and what he has learned from his reading. The movie "Three Days of the Condor" is based on this book, which is the first in a series of books, sort of like the James Bond series. Naturally, being film media, the story needed cutting down to size, hence three days instead of six. Robert Redford has to squeeze James Grady's "Six Days of the Condor" into the Redford mold. The book plot of drugs and Vietnam is out. Redford's substitute plot of oil and Arabs is in. Bad guys differ. Great acting, great actors, and a few faux pas, such as if they knew there was a back door to the location, don't you think it would be watched? In the movie, Tina Chen (Janice) can be seen again in "Paper Man (1971)". I keep hard copies of books so they can not change the script on me.