The Assets (Windsor Selection S.) - Hardcover

Allbeury, Ted

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754015548 ISBN 13: 9780754015543

Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C, 2001

Synopsis

Ted Allbeury's latest novel concerns the potentially explosive topic of MK Ultra, the most secret operation in the CIA. MK Ultra is concerned with the use of mind-control under the influence of hypnosis and, sometimes, drugs. The problems started when the CIA ruled out the use of volunteers in these experiements because volunteers would give a false picture of the effects of the drug and could distort the effects of the hypnosis. As always, Ted Allbeury uses the facts splendidly in his novel, which tells of the disturbing, terrifying and sometimes tragic human consequences of these experiments. His hero, Senator Joe Maguire, is a fundamentally decent man whose unenviable task it is to monitor the goings-on of MK Ultra and to pick up the pieces when things go horribly wrong. As they do. THE ASSETS raises disturbing issues and ethical dilemmas to which there are no easy answers.

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Review

The most consistently inventive of our novelists of espionage, the one other thriller writers point to as the finest craftsman among them (Guardian)

His characters, regardless of which side they're on, are always humanely portrayed and utterly plausible (Scotsman)

No one picks through the intelligence maze with more authority or humanity than Allbeury (The Sunday Times)

Mr Allbeury is a writer of espionage tales that often soar far above the genre (New Yorker)

Book Description

A contemporary espionage thriller from a master of the genre

Edition details

• Publisher: Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754015548
• ISBN 13: 9780754015543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312