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Condon, Richard Thomas was born on March 18, 1915 in New York City. Son of Richard Aloysius and Martha Irene (Pickering) Condon.
(Perfect for fans of HOMELAND, this is the classic novel o...)
Perfect for fans of HOMELAND, this is the classic novel of espionage and intrigue. Sgt Raymond Shaw is a hero of the first order. He's an ex-prisoner of war who saved the life of his entire outfit, a winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, the stepson of an influential senator...and the perfect assassin. Brainwashed during his time as a POW he is a 'sleeper', a living weapon to be triggered by a secret signal. He will act without question, no matter what order he is made to carry out. To stop Shaw, his former commanding officer must uncover the truth behind a twisted conspiracy of torture, betrayal and power that will lead to the highest levels of the government...
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(Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller remains just as c...)
Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller remains just as chilling today. It's the story of Sgt. Raymond Shaw, an ex-prisoner of war (and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor) who, brainwashed with the rest of his unit by a Chinese psychological expert during his captivity in North Korea, has come home programmed to kill. His primary target is a U.S. presidential nominee. Made into a controversial 1962 movie with Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, and Angela Lansbury.
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(AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 ...)
AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 in Paris and Berlin. A beautiful young French Jew, Paula Bernheim, and a Prussian officer, Wilhelm von Rhode, meet and fall in love. Within a few months they are married and settled in Berlin--just as Hitler's rise to power begins. The story of what happens to this young couple serves as a microcosm for the European convulsion, as Hitler's poisonous brand of anti-Semitism invades every strata of society.
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(AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 ...)
AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 in Paris and Berlin. A beautiful young French Jew, Paula Bernheim, and a Prussian officer, Wilhelm von Rhode, meet and fall in love. Within a few months they are married and settled in Berlin--just as Hitler's rise to power begins. The story of what happens to this young couple serves as a microcosm for the European convulsion, as Hitler's poisonous brand of anti-Semitism invades every strata of society.
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(MILE HIGH by Richard Condon, Author of The Manchurian Can...)
MILE HIGH by Richard Condon, Author of The Manchurian Candidate, The Dial Press, 1969, First Edition, First printing. This is a Collectible, Hardcover book and dust jacket.
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(Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and f...)
Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and final American Revolution. Led by a brilliant black criminal laywer named Agatha Teel, the revolutionaries plan a mission to save society by punishing it--starting with the destruction of three cities. In China, hand-picked leaders undergo intensive training in urban warfare and secret personnel and weaponry are spread throughout the U.S.--the entire vast operation funded through the heroin trade. Could it happen here? Condon colors doomsday vividly and believably.
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(Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and f...)
Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and final American Revolution. Led by a brilliant black criminal laywer named Agatha Teel, the revolutionaries plan a mission to save society by punishing it--starting with the destruction of three cities. In China, hand-picked leaders undergo intensive training in urban warfare and secret personnel and weaponry are spread throughout the U.S.--the entire vast operation funded through the heroin trade. Could it happen here? Condon colors doomsday vividly and believably.
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(Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality...)
Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality--as chilly novelist Condon (Prizzi's Honor, etc.) details the largely factual 1390-1415 story of Baldassare Cossa, a soldier/pimp/entrepreneur who became mercenary Pope John XXIII. . . and the fatalistic, much-betrayed pawn of rising banker Cosimo di Medici. The off-and-on narrator here is Franco Ellera, Jewish slave to the Cossas, a pirate-family of Naples; and when young Cossa is sent off to Bologna to begin studies for a lawyer/prelate career, Franco goes along as sidekick. But, while rising in academia and Bologna politics, Cossa also pursues his other life--as rake, pimp, thief (stealing a hoard of Papal gold), soldier-of-fortune. An atheist who has never taken holy orders, he becomes a cardinal largely because of his battlefield triumphs in fending off the current pope's enemies. And along the amorous way (317 conquests, not including courtesans), Cossa falls madly in love with two women: Catherine Visconti, wife of the Duke of Milan; and Decima Manovale--the super-courtesan who, working for the Medici Bank, uses her four daughters as bedroom diplomats and plots Cossa's way to the Papacy (as a ""conciliar"" pope to end the church's great Schism, an alternative to the feuding Rome/Avignon pontiffs). With slangy anachronisms and utter cynicism, Condon sometimes offers a bouncy--if only half-convincing--picture of the Church as Mafia. And he does manage to digest large chunks of complex Church-in-Schism history. But no one here, including ruthless-yet-passive Cossa, is even roughly sympathetic; the melodramatic episodes (some purely fictional) get lost amid all the historical detail; and, though free of the verbose stateliness usually found in pope novels, this lowdown, relatively breezy chronicle is more intriguingly informative than richly entertaining.
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(The author turns his wicked eye on the "Imperial Presiden...)
The author turns his wicked eye on the "Imperial Presidency", with a real emperor ruling America in the not-too-distant future. This humorous satire on American politics is by the author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and the "Prizzi" trilogy.
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( Owney Hazman is the American dream. He's a money-makin...)
Owney Hazman is the American dream. He's a money-making hot-dog salesman with a beutiful wife and rich father-in-law. But Owney has a prblem: his mother left when he was nine and he's still trying to find her. And when Owney meets scheming Oona Noon, he soon realizes his problems are just beginning. Engineer of her dim husband's bid fir the presidency, which she fuels with profits from her multi-billion dollar cocaine importing operation, Oona has plans for Owney. With the dazzle of his mythically perfect smile, he'll make the ideal point-man for one of her shadier international deals. Now, dogged by powerful enemies-from the mandarins of Peking to the crime barons of the Prizzi's-and with no sign of his mother, Owney is hardly ready for Oona's next proposal: that he, too, belongs in politics! The Final Addiction is a triumph of contemporary Americana from Richard Condon, the unchallenged master of high comic suspense.
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(Mile High Mile Deep may be the richest, most vivid first ...)
Mile High Mile Deep may be the richest, most vivid first hand account there is of life in Butte, Montana during the 1920's. Often referred to these days as Butte, America, this tough, proud, gritty town of some thirty-odd thousand souls today, was once home to nearly four times that number, making it the Wild West's only real city. It was made up of ethnic districts as diverse as New York or Chicago, so that early in this century the air was filled with a dozen tongues, as the Irish, Italians, Finns, Swedes, Norwegians, Cornishmen, Montenegrins, Yugoslavs, along with others, poured in to mine for copper.
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(SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux,...)
SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux, in the aura of the very rich. About Captain Colin Huntington, Royal Navy (retired), a man who has absolutely everything, plus one fatal flaw; he is a compulsive gambler, which brings his life and those he loves to the precipice of destruction.
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(SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux,...)
SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux, in the aura of the very rich. About Captain Colin Huntington, Royal Navy (retired), a man who has absolutely everything, plus one fatal flaw; he is a compulsive gambler, which brings his life and those he loves to the precipice of destruction.
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(Everyone knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchur...)
Everyone knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchurian Candidate starring Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, even though it was taken out of circulation for 25 years after JFK's assassination. Equally controversial on publication, and just as timely today, is Richard Condon's original novel. First published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins. Condon's expert manipulation of the book's multiple themes - from anticommunist hysteria to megalomaniacal motherhood - makes this one of the most dazzling, and enduring, products of an unforgettable time. Read by Robert Vaughn
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(The Manchurian Candidate. 1962 Screenplay. [Student Editi...)
The Manchurian Candidate. 1962 Screenplay. [Student Edition. 160 Pages.] Director: John Frankenheimer Writers: Richard Condon (based on a novel by), George Axelrod (screenplay) Stars: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh LOOSE LEAF UNBOUND EDITION NO BINDER.
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(In WINTER KILLS, Richard Condon probes one of the most si...)
In WINTER KILLS, Richard Condon probes one of the most significant events in America's 20th century: the assassination of a president. Timothy Kegan is shot in a Philadelphia motorcade; a presidential commission condemns a lone psychopath as the killer. Fourteen years later, Tim's half-brother, Nick, learns through a deathbed confession that Tim was the victim of a mysterious conspiracy. As Nick attempts to find the real assassin, he encounters oil kings, movie queens, venal police, organized crime, the CIA, and labor unions -- all eager for power and control. The ending is guaranteed to surprise and horrify!
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Condon, Richard Thomas was born on March 18, 1915 in New York City. Son of Richard Aloysius and Martha Irene (Pickering) Condon.
Graduated from high school, New York City.
Indiana novelist, non-fiction writer, screenwriter, 1958-1996. Consultant International Confederation of Book Actors.
(Everyone knows the controversial 1962 film of The Manchur...)
(A collection of easy-to-read stories concerning the world...)
(In WINTER KILLS, Richard Condon probes one of the most si...)
(The author turns his wicked eye on the "Imperial Presiden...)
(Mile High Mile Deep may be the richest, most vivid first ...)
(MILE HIGH by Richard Condon, Author of The Manchurian Can...)
(Papal history without pomp, circumstance, or spirituality...)
(SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux,...)
(SYNOPSIS: "Set in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Bordeaux,...)
(Perfect for fans of HOMELAND, this is the classic novel o...)
(Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and f...)
(Richard Condon presents his scenario for the second and f...)
(Paperback, as pictured; appears never fully opened, but m...)
(AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 ...)
(AN INFINITY OF MIRRORS takes place between 1932 and 1944 ...)
(Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller remains just as c...)
(Dark satire about the piratical anti-Pope of 14th Century...)
(STATED FIRST PRINTING~REALLY CLEAN COPY INSIDE AND OUT)
(book is new but dust jacket shows some shelf life.)
(Book details 10 years of Rockies very nice)
(FIRST EDITION - A MID-CENTURY FAERIE TALE)
(Hardcover Publisher: Random House (1959))
( Owney Hazman is the American dream. He's a money-makin...)
(The Manchurian Candidate. 1962 Screenplay. [Student Editi...)
(Unabridged CD Audiobook.. 8 CDs / 9.5 hours long)
(Classic Condon humour.)
(Book by Noel, Thomas J)
(Thriller/Espionage)
(mystery spy novel)
(mystery spy novel)
(Hardcover - 1978)
(Reprint)
Playwright: Men of Distinction, 1953. Writer children's record albums The Horse Stories, 1947. Novelist (public 25 languages), The Oldest Confession, 1958, The Manchurian Candidate, 1959, Some Angry Angel, 1960, A Talent for Loving, 1961, An Infinity of Mirrors, 1964, Any God Will Do, 1966, The Ecstasy Business, 1967, Mile High, 1969, Vertical Smile, 1971, Arigato, 1972, And Then We Moved to Rossenarra, 1973, The Mexican Stove, 1973, Winter Kills, 1974, The Star Spangled Crunch, 1974, Money is Love, 1975, The Whisper of the Axe, 1976, The Abandoned Woman, 1977, The Bandicoot, 1978, Death of a Politician, 1978, The Entwining, 1980, Prizzi's Honor, 1982, A Trembling Upon Rome, 1983, Prizzi's Family, 1986, Prizzi's Glory, 1988, Emperor of America, 1990, The Final Addiction, 1991, The Venerable Bread, 1992, Prizzi's Money, 1994.Screenplays: (with Janet Roach) Prizzi's Honor, 1984 (Academy award nominate 1986, Best Screenplay award British Motion Picture Academy 1986, Best Screenplay award Writers Guild American 1986), Arigato, 1985. Contributor to national magazines.
Married Evelyn Rose Hunt, January 14, 1938. Children: Deborah Evelyn, Wendy Annual.