The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon [TRADE PAPERBACK / 1988]

VINTAGE TRADE PAPERBACK [1988] QUALITY PAPERBACK BOOK CLUB

Book is in excellent condition with some mild wear / tanning.  Perfect reading copy.

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. Condon's expert manipulation of the book's multiple themes – from anticommunist hysteria to megalomaniacal motherhood – makes this one of the most dazzling, and enduring, products of an unforgettable time.