Thunder
By James Grady
1994
First Published
3.27
Average Rating
390
Number of Pages
Yesterday John Lang was a young CIA street dog fighting his country's invisible wars in the bloody back alleys around the world. Today he strolls the marble corridors of Washington as the agency's liaison to the U.S. Senate. Violence was supposed to be in his past. Then a bomb guts a New York skyscraper and an "officially" stray bullet kills Lang's partner. Lang must spy once more. This time his target will be the post-Cold War, "new" CIA, poised on the razor-edged realities of the 1990s' New World Order. Was his partner murdered and if so why? What secrets link the Senate Intelligence Committee and his late partner? Which loyalties must Lang betray? And how can he discover the truth - let alone avenge his partner's death - without destroying himself? The answers lie under the monuments, the slums, and the freeways in the other Washington, the city of cover-ups and twisted loyalties and cynical power. Here death can come silently, unobtrusively, anywhere, any time. Here Lang is branded as a rebel, hunted by a trail of sanctioned agents, and trapped between two women he can't trust who both claim a piece of his heart. Here he must race toward survival and redemption...and a revelation as shocking as any in suspense fiction.
Avg Rating
3.27
Number of Ratings
41
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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Author
James Grady
Author · 19 books
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.
