James Grady

James Grady is a longtime author of thrillers, police procedural and espionage novels. He graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 1974. During college, he worked for United States Senator Lee Metcalf of Montana as an staff member.
From 1974 - 1978 he was an investigative journalist for the famous muckraker Jack Anderson. Best known as the author of Six Days of the Condor , which was adapted to film as Three Days of the Condor starring Robert Redford in 1975.
James Grady has gone on to write almost a dozen more novels in the thirty-eight years since Six Days of the Condor was published.
In the past James Grady has written under the pseudonyms of James Dalton and Brit Shelby.
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Books by James Grady
Speculative Fiction Books
Fictions and Others
Shadows on Sidewalks
2026 | thriller
American Sky
2025 | historical fiction
The Smoke in Our Eyes
2024 | crime fiction
This Train
2022 | thriller, mystery
Mad dogs
2006 | thriller, spy thriller, mystery
City of Shadows
2000 | historical fiction, thriller, mystery
Thunder
1994 | thriller, spy thriller
The Nature of the Game
1992 | historical fiction, thriller, spy thriller, mystery
White Flame
1990 | thriller, crime fiction, mystery
Steeltown
1988 | thriller
Catch the Wind
1980
The Great Pebble Affair
1976 | thriller, crime fiction
