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A βbeautiful literary thrillerβ (Los Angeles Review of Books) inspired by the shocking history of a secret CIA mind-control program, Half World is βthe perfect book for our present momentβ (The Daily Beast).
In the 1950s the CIA began a decades-long clandestine operation, known as Project MKULTRA, in which unwitting American citizens were subjected to insidious drug and mind-control experiments. Haunted by these real-life events, acclaimed novelist Scott OβConnor has crafted a riveting novel 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 βcompany manβ forced to spearhead MKULTRAβs San Francisco branch, finds himself bridging an untenable divide between his devotion to his wife and children and the brutality of his daily task. Torn between duty and conscience, Henry March chooses neither,...
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