[The Condor 01] • The Short Takes

The legendary CIA spy is back--in a "superb" collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times -bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).

James Grady, "king of the modern espionage thriller" (George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire ), first introduced his clandestine CIA operative--codename: Condor--in a debut novel that became Three Days of the Condor , one of the key films of the paranoid era of the 1970s, and is now the basis for the hit ATT original series, Condor , starring Max Irons and William Hurt.

In this explosive collection featuring a new introduction on the writing and publication history of Condor, a never-before-published original novella, and short fiction collected for the first time, Grady brings his covert agent into the twenty-first century. From the chaos of 9/11 to the unprecedented Russian cyber threats, Condor is back.

In condor.net , the intelligence analyst chases an unfathomable conspiracy that begins in Afghanistan and leads to the secrets of his own superiors. In Caged Daze of the Condor , Jasmine Daze of the Condor , and Next Day of the Condor, the paranoia of National Security's sworn soldier reaches a screaming pitch when he's locked behind the walls of the CIA's private insane asylum. Classified documents in the basement of the Library of Congress draw Condor into a murderous subterranean world where no one can be trusted in Condor in the Stacks. And in Russian Roulette of the Condor , the striking new novella shot through with the biggest spy scandal since the Cold War, the underground patriot faces a dictator determined to turn American politics into an insidious spy game.

Brace yourself for six shots of the iconic Condor from James Grady, who has been called a "master of intrigue" by John Grisham, and whose prose was compared to George Orwell and Bob Dylan by the Washington Post.