Manchurian Candidate

Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller novel about the son of a prominent US political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.

The novel has been adapted twice into a feature film by the same title, in 1962 and again in 2004.

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