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Simon & Schuster
March 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
Featuring: Henry March; Thomas
432 pages
ISBN: 1476716609
EAN: 9781476716602
Kindle: B00DPM7X3M
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In the 1950s, the CIA began a clandestine operation known as
Project MKULTRA, in which unwitting American citizens were
subjected to insidious drug and mind-control experiments. In
the two decades the program ran, a nation’s trust was
betrayed and countless lives—and families—were destroyed. Haunted and inspired by these real-life events, acclaimed
novelist Scott O’Connor has crafted a riveting, tour de
force literary thriller that vividly imagines the
devastating emotional legacy of such a program through the
eyes of one of its more unexpected victims. CIA analyst
Henry March, an unassuming “company man” forced to spearhead
MKULTRA’s San Francisco branch, finds himself bridging an
untenable divide between his devotion to his wife and
children—his beloved Hannah and sweet autistic Thomas—and
the brutality of his daily task. Torn between duty and
conscience, Henry’s own identity begins to fray, until he
finally reaches the ultimate breaking point. Amid the
wreckage, Henry March disappears without a trace, taking
with him the evidence of his sins and becoming the deepest
ULTRA mystery of all. Twenty years later, as the country struggles under the
weight of the Vietnam War, another troubled young agent will
risk everything to find Henry, protect Hannah, and piece
together the staggering aftermath of the crimes before it’s
too late. Hailed as “one to watch” (Los Angeles Times), especially for
his ability “to make something beautiful of unspeakable
matters” (The New York Times), O’Connor has crafted a
stunning, sensitive, and psychologically astute look at the
depths to which a government will sink in service of its own
power and the strength required of the human spirit to set
itself free. Gorgeous and unflinching, Half World is both a
page-turning drama and a transcendent celebration of our
enduring capacity for hope.
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