Shadow of the Condor by James Grady

Author:James Grady [Grady, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780340207031
Google: MnkHPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 039911596X
Goodreads: 1866799
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1975-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

if we were to give you our real names, we would still 'Anglicize' them since I doubt you could adequately pronounce them without a great deal of effort and their mispronunciation would prove very irritable. We are intelligence agents of the People's Republic of China, and you are our captive at a house just across the Canadian border from Montana.

"Perhaps it would be best to begin several years ago. As you know, relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, that huge country you Americans simplify as Russia, and our country have been strained for decades. Actually, they've been strained since China first unified itself following World War Two and that crazy general's rather disgusting, ignoble retreat. There have been the periodic easing and tightening of tensions. Although the two countries are by and large 'allies,' an oftentimes belligerent situation exists. This belligerence quite naturally manifests itself in what one of your fictional writers would probably call the dark world of espionage. We must really have a long discussion about that literary genre. Like you, I have studied it extensively, although not 'professionally.'

"Over the years we have worked with Soviet intelligence apparatuses on numerous projects. We have also spent a good deal of time thwarting their efforts to spy on and meddle in our affairs. At times our intelligence units come as close to open conflict with Soviet agents as they do with the CIA. But usually we stick to the more mutually palatable and minimally destabilizing activities such as diplomatic expulsions, checking maneuvers and quiet pressure. Just after your new year of 1974 started, our two countries went through a whole series of such endeavors, including mutual diplomatic expulsions.

"During that time we discovered some very interesting things. We obtained some knowledge from a Soviet agent which we had seen only glimpses of before. We were able to obtain it in such a way that we doubt his superiors know we have it. I won't bore you with unnecessary details.

"Since 1964 a number of rather nasty events have been occurring in and around our security endeavors. Suffice it to say that we were not pleased. The Soviet agent we captured

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