Mad Dogs

Written by James Grady

Narrated by William Dufris

James Grady revolutionized the political thriller with his first novel, Six Days of the Condor. Now Grady breaks fresh thriller territory with Mad Dogs, a brilliant novel launched from a totally original creation: the CIA's secret insane asylum for "retired" agents.
Five deranged CIA killers, all of them dependent on their meds and deep in the woods of Maine, are forced to break out of the asylum when someone murders their psychiatrist-and frames them for the deed.

Crazy and traumatized by their experiences in the CIA, they operate under somewhat skewed perceptions of the real world. Their training, however, has prepared them to survive in an unfriendly world-even if that world is the Boston-to-Washington corridor as they chase down the real killer.

Suspenseful, fast, and edgy, as well as funny and humane, Mad Dogs is a stunning novel of political commentary and a tour-de-force of contemporary literary style, a look at twenty-first-century spy wars.
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• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Dec 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781400173181

James Grady

James Grady is the award-winning author of more than a dozen novels and three times as many short stories. 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. A Mystery Writers of America Edgar finalist, he has received Italy’s Raymond Chandler Medal, France’s Grand Prix Du Roman Noir, Japan’s Baka-Misu literature award, and two Regardie's magazine short-story awards.

Reviews for Mad Dogs

[mikemillertime · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Boring read that took itself way too seriously and couldn't be nearly as cool and fun as it tried to be. Stock characters, tired cliches, repetitive style, only a baby boomer would appreciate the nonstop 60s counterculture allusions that try to found the story's edginess.