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Manipulative mom Eleanor complicates Raymond's life where and when she can, but more than anything tries to further her husband's political career - culminating in the 1960 party convention for the presidential (and vice-presidential) nomination.
but that's not quite enough to figure out how it works, or who is behind it. Marco starts having nightmares, suggesting something very different happened from what they remember (memories which are strangely clear but also disengaged).Īnd it happens that another member of the patrol also writes to Shaw about having similar nightmares.Įventually it even occurs to Marco that they might have all been brainwashed.
The only friend he has is the Captain (later Colonel) who was leading the patrol that fateful night in Korea, Marco. Shaw's talents remain unused for several years after his return from Korea, during which time he works as a journalist. The fact that he's a drunk and has few good qualities doesn't hold him back, and in Washington he eventually pushes himself to the fore with wild (and unfounded) McCarthy-like accusations. She married her former husband's law partner, Johnny Iselin, and then devoted herself to his career: from judge to governor to senator, he rises up, accumulating ever-greater power. She has high hopes for her son too, but largely as her instrument.Įleanor Shaw divorced Raymond's father (an eventual suicide) when Raymond was twelve. With good reason, too, as he has a ruthless and ambitious mother who demands she gets her way and stands for little else.
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The brainwashing not only very effectively impressed a different reality on all those captured ("Their brains had not merely been washed, they had been dry-cleaned"), but it turned Raymond into a pliable killing machine: the right prod (a game of solitaire, and then the queen of diamonds) and he would obey any command.Ī crack marksman, a Medal of Honor winner, and the stepson of a US senator make him an ideal sleeper-assassin for his Soviet-Chinese handlers to use when going after the most prominent of targets.Īside from his on-target shooting ability and his family connexions, the main reason Shaw is chosen to be the on-command killer is because he is the ideal subject.Īlthough the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it is the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.Īnd if anyone has a cancer of the psyche it is Shaw: "He is afflicted with total resentment." It's a feat of bravery that earns Shaw the prestigious Medal of Honor - just as the Chinese intended. The idea is that during the Korean War Raymond Shaw and ten other men on an Intelligence and Reconnaissance patrol were captured by the Chinese, brainwashed, and then released, convinced that Shaw had heroically saved them (save two, who didn't make it) after an (imaginary) engagement with the enemy. In The Manchurian Candidate author Richard Condon takes a clever idea and nearly runs amok with it. We acknowledge (and remind and warn you) that they may, in fact, be entirely unrepresentative of the actual reviews by any other measure. Similarly the illustrative quotes chosen here are merely those the complete review subjectively believes represent the tenor and judgment of the review as a whole. Please note that these ratings solely represent the complete review 's biased interpretation and subjective opinion of the actual reviews and do not claim to accurately reflect or represent the views of the reviewers. Condon accelerates his plot to an ingenious crisis and writes in high-speed vituperative prose which is often difficult and clumsy, but his sardonic wit keeps brilliant control of the two parallel intrigues." - Times Literary Supplement Condon has not written a successful novel but a wild, vigorous, curiously readable melange." - Frederic Morton, The New York Times Book Review