A gun battle leaves Wendy critically injured and the three men fleeing the scene, but not before Malcolm notes Atwood’s car licence number. Maronick and the head of the conspiracy, Atwood, meet to discuss the phone call and, by pure coincidence, bump into Malcolm and Wendy. They hope that his call will panic the conspirators into a mistake. The CIA reroutes the call to the counter espionage group, who convince Malcolm to call the main CIA line and mention Maronick’s name. ![]() Malcolm and Wendy return to Washington to call the panic line again. A counter-espionage group in the CIA decides to use Malcolm as an agent provocateur to flush out the conspirators. They look for Maronick, assuming the three were working together for an unidentified double agent within the CIA. ![]() The man was an associate of Wetherby and a third man, Maronick. When the CIA finds the dead man in Wendy’s apartment and they identify him, it gives them a break. The hitman is about to kill Malcolm when Wendy distracts him long enough for Malcolm to shoot him. Discovering that Malcolm had been seen with Wendy and determining her address, they send a hit man to eliminate them. The CIA and the conspirators search for Malcolm. The conspirators kill Wetherby to make sure he doesn’t talk. Although she doesn’t believe his story to start with, she becomes persuaded and agrees to help him. Realising he can’t trust anyone in the CIA, and needing a bolt hole, Malcolm tricks and then threatens a young woman, Wendy Ross, into helping him. Wetherby kills the witness before passing out from blood loss. Malcolm shoots Wetherby in the leg, and then runs. He draws his gun to shoot Malcolm, but misjudges the shot and misses. Malcolm is suspicious, and rightly so-Wetherby is part of the conspiracy. When Malcolm arrives at the rendezvous, there’s another man, Wetherby, with his contact. They tell him to hide for a couple of hours and then meet up with a CIA instructor, who he will recognise, who will take him to headquarters for his own protection. He calls the CIA’s emergency ‘panic line’ and asks what to do. Malcolm returns to discover the bodies, realises the killers will probably come for him too, grabs a gun and flees. While he’s out, a group of men enters the office and kills everyone in it. The next day, Malcolm fetches lunch for the entire group, as it’s raining. Malcolm thinks the discrepancies are just clerical errors. The work bores Malcolm, as do his colleagues, one of whom has noticed anomalies in the deliveries of novels to the department. ![]() His group, ‘Department Seventeen of the CIA’s Information Division’, reads spy novels, looking for innovative ideas, and also for any leaks of information that may compromise current missions. Ronald Malcolm is a CIA analyst, codenamed Condor, in a low priority backwater of the CIA. I guess we could regard the first Wednesday as before the Condor ‘takes off’, and the seventh day as a continuation of the sixth, as the hero is up all night. Note: Despite being called six days of the Condor, there are actually eight days mentioned in the narrative: Wednesday to Wednesday. ![]() (For more on loglines, see The Killogator Logline Formula) Six Days of the Condor: Plot Summary Unable to trust anyone within the CIA, he goes on the run and must try to avoid being eliminated before he can unravel the conspiracy behind the attack. In 1970s Washington DC, a CIA analyst comes back from lunch to discover mystery assailants have murdered everyone in his office. (For more on titles, see How to Choose a Title For Your Novel) Six Days of the Condor: Logline The title uses two classic title archetypes, the Protagonist, who’s codename is ‘Condor’ and the Defining Moment: the six days that he’s on the run. To view them, just select/highlight them. Warning: Major spoilers are blacked out like this secret. It is probably best known nowadays from the movie adaptation starring Robert Redford, Three Days of the Condor. Six Days of the Condor, written by James Grady and published in 1974, is a classic spy conspiracy thriller.
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