After one year of college, Grady found he could not control his restlessness and moved on to more exciting projects. He joined the army, and after completing his aptitude testing for the military, he was trained for assignments that suited his call for high adventure. When discharged, he turned to driving race cars and was immediately picked up by Chevrolet to help develop several concepts of the muscle car area. After a successful ten years of driving, promotion, and handling motor sports teams, Grady quit and returned to college and earned a law degree. He practiced criminal law until sickened by the legitimacy of the system, and returned to what he knew best, driving race cars. Grady was immediately hired to drive for corporations such as Chrysler, Levis, Matco Tools, and his last ride was with Adolph Coors, Corp. Being a syndicated writer for several motor sports publications led him to write his first book about the early days of drag racing, “Match Race Madness.” It relates to the early days of racing and is considered to have a cult following and is frequently quoted in motor sports editorials. Unbeknownst to himself, he was continuously preparing himself to be an action adventure writer, encompassing his travels and adventures into fiction, which is manifested in all his books.