Six Days of the Condor
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Six Days of the Condor is a thriller novel by James Grady.
The story is a suspense drama set in contemporary New York City, and is considered an exposition of the moral ambiguity of the actions of the United States government following the Vietnam War and Watergate.
[edit] Plot
Joe Turner is a CIA employee who works in a clandestine office in New York City. One day, when he should be in the office, he slips out a basement entrance for lunch. In his absence a group of armed men, led by an assassin later identified as Joubert, gains entrance to the office and kills everyone there. Turner returns, realizes he is in grave danger, and telephones a phone number at CIA headquarters he has been given for emergencies.
When he phones in (and remembers to give his code name "Condor"), he is told to keep quiet and they will send an agent out to "bring him in" for protection. The agent instead tries to kill Turner, who escapes with his life. Realizing that he cannot trust anyone within the CIA, Turner now begins to play a cat-and-mouse game with the rogue group who killed his colleagues.
[edit] Film adaptation
- In 1975 James Grady and Lorenzo Semple adapted the novel to film as Three Days of the Condor.
