Mad Dogs was one of the best thrillers I read last year, and Three Days of the Condor is a favourite film of mine, so it’s great to see Six Days back in print and finally get the chance to read it. First, though, there’s a bonus novella, condor.net, a sequel explicitly updating and re-imagining Six Days. In its relentlessly paced 44 pages Grady crams an epic, insanely complex, action packed tale of mass murder, betrayal and intrigue in the post-9-11 espionage world into a ridiculously small package, and makes it look easy. Awesome, jaw-dropping stuff. Six Days follows, stately and slightly old-fashioned by comparison but still packing a punch. Though unfairly overshadowed by the iconic brilliance of the film, this grandaddy of paranoid conspiracy thrillers still manages to show the others how it’s done. Worth picking up for condor.net alone, and for heaven’s sake look out for Mad Dogs, about a gang of insane CIA agents on the run, framed for the murder of their group therapist. It’s pure genius.