![]() ![]() Marco now works as an intelligence officer based in the United States. The novel shifts several years after the official end of the Korean War in 1953. When they return to the United States, the nation celebrates the platoon’s heroic story, and Shaw is awarded a Medal of Honor. When they emerge, they all subscribe to the belief that they were never brainwashed, and that Shaw saved their lives just when all hope seemed lost. They are imprisoned in Manchuria with the other members of their platoon, where they are tortured and brainwashed over a span of months. Soviet commandos capture Major Bennett Marco, along with his friend, Sergeant Shaw. The novel begins in 1952, three years into the Korean War. ![]() The novel has been adapted into several films in the decades since its publication. public felt during the Korean War, using features of modern psychology to render its terrorist plot credible. ![]() The novel reflects the intense paranoia that the U.S. While a prisoner of war, his partner, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, is subjected to an intense psychological regimen of hypnosis, through which he is unwittingly transformed into a sleeper agent for the Communists. The Manchurian Candidate (1959), a thriller novel by American political writer Richard Condon, concerns Major Bennett Marco, the son of a dynastic United States family with deep links to its political bureaucracy, who is kidnapped by the allied Soviets and Chinese during the Korean War. ![]()
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