The Manchurian Candidate

Richard Condon

Nov 2013 · RosettaBooks

About this ebook

The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker
 
A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . .
 
This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle).
 
“Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune
 
“Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time

Ratings and reviews

Itmis interestingmto me that Hollywoodland would jump on this book so soon after it was written. After watching the narrative film American Ultra about MK Ultra brainwashing experiments on unwitting and unwilling Americans between 1952 and 1975 using LSD, GHB, Mescaline, and Babituates as well as many designer drugs containing Fluorine and Scopolamine, Belladona, and many other chemical agents in the effort to manipulate and control people using hypnosis and audio and visual subliminal messages as well as certain handsigns and other gestures as commands and also seeking Elecro-Magnetic Frequencies and ELF/ULF waves to manipulate people, emarass world leaders during public speaking and disrupt political activities and even set up a brothel in L.A. which had two way mirrors behind which Agents of the CIA and scholars and academics they employed would film the candidates, mostly Heroin addicts and such, and take notes as their paid prostitutes would administer various drugs and then have sex. Many actors and actresses including Rosannae Barr who claims to have been abused and mind-controlled as a child and points out the Jackson family was fathered by a CIA operative of MK Ultra...

About the author

Richard Condon (1915–1996) is a political novelist from New York who wrote over twenty-six satirical thrillers throughout a prolific career--dealing with themes of political corruption, greed, and abuse of power. Before his career as a novelist, Condon served in the US Merchant Marines and later became a Hollywood publicist, agent, and advertising writer. Condon's best-selling works include The Manchurian Candidate and the Prizzi series, dealing with the life of a crime family in New York. The Manchurian Candidate was made into a movie twice, once in 1962 and again in 2004. The 1962 movie starred Frank Sinatra and Angela Lansbury, who was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role.