Brainwashed, A Thriller

“POWERFUL! BRILLIANT! Slick and sexy! Written by pros who know how to tell a story.” —Publisher's Weekly

The physically scarred and psychologically maimed survivor of a top secret CIA mind-control experiment, Zeb Marlowe has begun to remake his life when Jai Jai Leland, the beautiful widow of a man who didn't survive, asks him to help her solve the mystery behind her husband's shocking murder.

Marlowe, struggling to resist his attraction to Jai Jai, is pulled into her dangerous quest despite himself. Together they search for brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Victor Ressid, creator of the diabolical experiments that ravaged Marlowe’s mind and turned ordinary, decent people into terrorists.

Meanwhile, stripped of his medical credentials and in thrall to perverse erotic desires, Ressid is consumed by fantasies of revenge against Marlowe, the only subject to defy him.

Against an ominous background of escalating global terrorism, Marlowe and Jai Jai must risk their lives to stop a nuclear threat that will destroy the security of the entire world even as they wonder if Marlowe, too, has been turned into a suicide bomber.

International in scope, Brainwashed takes place on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean, in Damascus and Dublin, in the Philippines, Washington, DC, and in an underground torture chamber located on Victor Ressid's secluded private estate located near the Mexico-Belize border.

Brainwashed is based on illegal real-life psychiatric experiments known by the code name MK-ULTRA and conducted on human subjects by the CIA in American and Canadian universities.

“Thrills, gut-churning suspense, nightmarish terror. I dare you to put it down.” —Bob Mayer, bestselling author

BRAINWASHED is based on real-life psychiatric experiments known by the code name MK-ULTRA and conducted on human subjects by the CIA in the 1950's and 1960's. MKUltra involved the use of many methodologies to manipulate mental states and alter brain function, including the surreptitious administration of drugs and other chemicals, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse. Although the CIA insists that MKUltra-type experiments have been abandoned, some CIA observers say there is little reason to believe it does not continue today under a different set of acronyms.

(This information is quoted from Wikipedia.)

RUTH HARRIS is a million-copy New York Times bestselling author and award winner for "best contemporary." Her highly praised novels in the PARK AVENUE SERIES and STRONG, SAVVY WOMEN SERIES, are available on Kobo. Her husband, Michael Harris, is the author of two bestselling memoirs, THE ATOMIC TIMES and ALWAYS ON SUNDAY, both available on Kobo in ebook editions.