{"product_id":"2026100009397-secondhand-the-manchurian-candidate","title":"The Manchurian Candidate","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: price clipped; small tears with wear along the edges. Pages: foxing along the prelims and book block. Binding remains tight; boards - square and clean. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fog of the Korean War, decorated war hero Raymond Shaw returns home a celebrated prisoner of war survivor — but the nightmares plaguing his commanding officer, Captain Bennett Marco, hint at a far darker truth buried beneath Shaw's patriotic veneer. Richard Condon's 1959 masterwork of political suspense chronicles the terrifying story of a soldier brainwashed by Communist forces into becoming a programmed assassin, a puppet poised to strike at the very heart of American democracy. The conspiracy reaches into the highest corridors of power, implicating shadowy foreign operatives and a shockingly familiar face within Shaw's own ambitious family.\n\nA razor-sharp satire of McCarthyism, Cold War paranoia, and the corrosive machinery of political ambition, The Manchurian Candidate argues with chilling precision that the greatest threats to freedom are often homegrown. Condon's prose is wickedly intelligent, laced with dark irony and a relentless momentum that keeps the reader perpetually off-balance. Celebrated as one of the defining political thrillers of the twentieth century, this novel raises a question that lingers long after the final page: in a world of manufactured loyalties and hidden agendas, how do you know whose side you're truly on?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203105071323,"sku":"2026100009397-SECONDHAND","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/50dc1f21-0108-4050-a3b8-e4f484906484.png?v=1788143804","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009397-secondhand-the-manchurian-candidate","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}