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      The Manchurian Candidate

      by Richard Condon
      Published
      Feb 1988
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      Suspense Suspense
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      320
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      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

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      General Fiction Suspense

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