The Smoke in Our Eyes

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'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwells novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post

'Grady is a master of intrigue' John Grisham

Set in 1959, the 'year the music died', The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters ten-year-old Lucas's world, he finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humour and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up.

Alongside the tightly written drama of Lucas and his family, Grady, author of the classic Condor series, evokes a heady mood and sense of place. From the Space Race and the first warnings of global climate change, to the brutal racism of segregation and the hope of a new generation to move us forward, The Smoke in Our Eyes is a fresh rending of rural noir that captures both an intimate story and the volatility of mid-century America.

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'Grady is a master of intrigue.' --John Grisham, international bestselling author

'James Grady is the king of the modern espionage thriller.' --George Pelecanos, award-winning writer/producer of The Wire

'Lean, edgy and sassy... Grady is a master of the CIA genre.' --Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames

'Wonderful . . . Reading the novel, I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel, 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row' A novel that's supremely entertaining and a sad, important look at the United States today.' --The Washington Post

'Condor in Last Days has all the skills of a lifetime of covert work, and displays them here to great effect and considerable excitement.' --Crime Review

Author Bio

James Grady has published more than a dozen novels and three times that many short stories, and worked in both feature films and television. His first novel, Six Days of the Condor, became the classic Robert Redford movie Three Days Of The Condor and the current Max Irons TV series Condor. Grady has been both US Senate aide and a national investigative reporter. He has received Italy's Raymond Chandler Medal, France's Grand Prix Du Roman Noir and Japan's Baka-Misu literature award, two Regardie Magazine short story awards, and been a Mystery Writers of America Edgar finalist. In 2008, Grady was named as one of the Telegraph's 50 crime writers to read before you die, and in 2015 the Washington Post compared his prose to George Orwell and Bob Dylan. He has two children and lives with his wife inside Washington, DC's beltway.