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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 jou…
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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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Shadows on Sidewalks 2026 American Sky 2025 The Smoke in Our Eyes 2024 This Train 2022 Next Day of the Condor 2015 Condor #3 
Condor in the Stacks 2015 Condor #3 
Last Days of the Condor 2014 Condor #3 
condor.net 2011 Condor #2 
Mad dogs 2006 
City of Shadows 2000 
Thunder 1994 
The Nature of the Game 1992 
White Flame 1990 
Steeltown 1988 
Just a Shot Away 1987 Devlin Rourke #2 
Hard Bargains 1985 John Rankin #2 
Razor Game 1985 Devlin Rourke #1 
Runner in the Street 1984 John Rankin #1 
Catch the Wind 1980 
The Great Pebble Affair 1976 
Shadow of the Condor 1975 Condor #2 
Six Days of the Condor 1974 Condor #1