This is a classic spy book, one of the first written. It was uncomplicated and easy to follow; very different from the spy books of John Le Carre. I enjoyed it a lot and found it entertaining. I thought it was interesting that it was this author's first book. The interview I heard with the au...
The opening pages are hilariously improbable: a top-secret government department where the six employees are paid to ... read spy novels for signs of what other spying agencies are doing? But the delicious preface by Grady to the 2008 edition (Six Days was written in the 1970s) insists that it's ...
A fast, fun read. It's hard not to compare it to the movie, and I do think this is one of those times where the movie improved on the book. You can see how it's an early version of the spy thrillers that come after him. The main character is fairly likable--though not as much as the version in th...
Dall'autore dei "Sei giorni del Condor", dunque una colonna portante per il genere spy, abbiamo questo libro, che secondo me non tiene fede alle aspettative e soprattutto siamo lontani dai fasti del Condor.L'idea non era affatto male, ma secondo me è stata sviluppata in maniera errata, dando trop...
The baby lay in his crib, snug in his one-piece yellow pajamas, his beloved blue-and-white-checkered cotton blanket bundled beside him. The baby stirred. Rubbed his nose with a fist that could just encircle his father’s finger. Blinked his blue eyes open. “Hi, Saul,” whispered Nick. The child’s b...
The empty highway hummed under the tires. He longed to be piloting a mail plane in the star-shot darkness above this pine deodorant–scented car. Instead of the hum of this road home, up there he’d hear the roar of twin propellers, smell stale sweat from the cargo crew who’d loaded the plane with ...
Brian and Doug walked on either side of him, Brian a half-step back on the right, the package’s strong side, because even when there’ll be no problem, it pays to be prepared beyond a government salary you can only collect if you’re still alive. Brian and Doug seemed pleasant. Younger, of course, ...
—Tracy Chapman, “Fast Car” Knocking. On the bedroom door. Faye turned off the faucets on the sink in the bathroom across from the bedroom. She’d kept that bathroom door open. Refused to be trapped blind in there. Morning light filled this commandeered apartment. Condor’s .45 lay on the bathroom s...