- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Reprint edition (Oct 2 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1568582706
- ISBN-13: 978-1568582702
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 345 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #316,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Richard Condon's 1959 Cold War thriller remains just as chilling today. It's the story of Sgt. Raymond Shaw, an ex-prisoner of war (and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor) who, brainwashed with the rest of his unit by a Chinese psychological expert during his captivity in North Korea, has come home programmed to kill. His primary target is a U.S. presidential nominee. Made into a controversial 1962 movie with Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, and Angela Lansbury.
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"The New Yorker" Brilliant...Wild and exhilarating.
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Thoroughly Captivating Read!,
By Nelson Aspen "Author/Journalist" (Los Angeles & NYC, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Manchurian Candidate (Paperback)
This is a thrilling novel, especially relevant in the context of today's world politics. Fans of the original film will be impressed with how marvelously it was adapted from this complex and well written novel.I can't imagine why they're remaking the movie in an updated version with Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, but hopefully they will exexcute it with the same class and poignancy as the first. A great read for people interested in the politics of the 20th Century and today.
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To Manchuria with Love,
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This review is from: The Manchurian Candidate (Paperback)
Condon has written a fascinating thriller on brain washing bordering on science fiction.The programmed individual is thoroughly under the handler's control who can kill his own mother, wife or anybody they chose at random like a heartless robot. The point was not as much to prove its plausibility but to show its absurdity if it can be mastered. We are also given a high dosage of McCarthyism and pure demagoguery of American politics. Raymond Shaw, an ordinary soldier is captured along with his comrades during the Korean war and were brain washed by a Chinese doctor for three grueling days and returned to the US. He is the one chosen, to be used as an assassin through his American handler. What a handler it turned out to be! His platoon officer, Major Ben Marco, suspects Raymond and the race against time begins. Ben has to decipher the code which transforms Raymond into a ruthless killer and stop him. He has to reconstruct his nightmares of those ghastly three days of mental torture and sort out the truth through mist and fog of illusion and delusion.He knows his friend is a mere tool and yet he lets him play one last deadly act and hopes he has the trump card to outsmart Raymond's handler. Does he succeed? A tour de force indeed.
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McCarthyism, Cold War evils, and a mother from hell...,
By lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Manchurian Candidate (Paperback)
For a person who does not like your Cold War spy novels I must admit that The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon is one of those rare books I consider to be simply brilliant. It is concise, very well-written, and has a story which is absolutely incredible (well okay, by today's standards it might be considered a bit over-the-top).In The Manchurian Candidate we have a US platoon in Korea (during the war) captured by Chinese/Russian scientists who brainwash them. One sargeant in particular is targetted to be their assassin on demand after the war. This fellow happens to have a power-hungry mother (..to be kind; she is truly vile) and her bozo husband who is modelled after the commie-hating Senator McCarthy. From here the story gets more complex and interwoven, with a truly shocking and brilliant ending. Bottom line: upon finishing this book you'll say "boy, that was GOOD". Compulsory reading. (compared with the film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, the novel is superior ... as is often the case. However the film does capture the essence of the book albeit in a somewhat diluted fashion.)
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