Richard Condon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1959, The Manchurian Candidate is Condon's riveting take on a little-known corner of the cold war, the almost sci-fi concept of American soldiers captured, brainwashed, and programmed by their Chinese captors to return to the states as unsuspected political assassins.
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Charley Partanna works as a hitman for the Prizzis, New York's most dangerous crime family. Irene Walker does, too. A LA-based tax consultant, she moonlights as a hitwoman. And now she's stolen a large sum of money for the mob, and it's Charley's job to find her. The catch? Charley is married to Irene.
Faced with divided loyalties, he must make a choice between the only family he's ever known and the woman he loves. Prizzi's Honor was made into...
3) Winter Kills
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
President Timothy Kegan is assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Philadelphia; a single shooter is caught and convicted. Fourteen years later, the slain President's brother, Nick, hears a deathbed confession that upends everything he thought he knew about his brother's death. In a desperate rush to find the real killer, Nick must navigate the murky waters of a conspiracy that involves the CIA, oil barons, the police force, movie stars, and people...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...