The Manchurian Candidate

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 secreteven 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 weapona sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors signal. Now hes 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