James Grady was born on 30th April 1949, in Shelby, Montana, a field of tough oil, railroad, and farming town clinging to the prairie 60 miles East of the Rocky Mountains. The area is a half an hour drive south of Canada. For most of his youth age, his father managed movie theatres and his mother was a country library. He was a bookish, movie-going kid who enjoyed playing football in high school. He went to public schools as well as worked while still studying. Grady once worked as a gravedigger, rock picker, farm tractor jockey, hay bucker, motion picture projectionist and city road crew labourer. James Grady graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism with a degree in Journalism. James Grady wrote the first novel by the title Six Days of the Condor. The novel was first published by W.W. Norton in 1974. The novel became a huge bestseller and in short order, an iconic, Oscar-nominated film entitled Three Days of the Condor, starring Robert Redford. In Mad Dogs, five spies, all being held at an asylum in Maine, find themselves the likely victims of a frame-up when their psychiatrist is murdered in their therapy room. With remarkable ease, they escape their confines and embark on a week-long run for freedom and revenge that takes the so-called Mad Dogs-all off their meds-to the nation's capital to find out who killed their shrink and why… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Mad Dogs” by James Grady on our website.
