THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

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What if the perfect assassin was one of us? Devoid of morality, unable to feel fear or concern, ready and prepared to kill on command. Living amongst us, blending in, near invisible, barely detectable, and thoroughly determined to complete any task. What if the controllers of this hidden assassin worked for a nation hostile to our national interests? And are just waiting at the ready to activate the kill asset on command. How would such an assassin be made and who would make him kill? Could prisoners of war be subjected to sophisticated brainwashing and memory wiping and also be installed with a trigger phrase that when uttered to the assassin would initiate an otherwise dormant tendency? A smart novel that prefigured the coming political assassinations that would rock 1960s America and shatter the myth of the American dream. Fiction. 358 pages.

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DETAILS:

Title: The Manchurian candidate

Year: 1959

Author: Richard Condon

Pages: 358

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Book review by Keith Salter