The Syndrome (2001)

    A promising research fellow for a venerable think-tank in Zurich has just filed his last report, only to become the centerpiece of a grisly and sinister experiment...  A seductive young woman named Nico travels to Florida and, from her hotel-room window, assassinates an old man in a wheelchair as he basks in the late afternoon sun...  Jeff Duran, a psychologist who helps patients confront and dispel past trauma through hypnosis, is himself a basket of neuroses, suffering panic attacks and agoraphobia...
     Everything spirals out of control when Nico commits suicide and Duran is forced to confront his past.  Or is it his past?  Is he really Jeff Duran?  Was there ever a Jeff Duran?

     Lorenzo Carcaterra, the best-selling author of Sleepers, called The Syndrome “A glass-shattering, diesel-fueled, hard-charging thrill-ride of a read.  The pages are filled with characters rich in detail and nuance forced to swim the murky waters of silence and secrecy.  The plot zooms along at Formula One speed, leaping through countries and cities, in an endless and desperate search for a truth that just may neve be found...  John Case is a confident master working at peak performance.  just sit back, grab hold, and let him lead you down his dangerous trail.”  

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   Also, check out this essay from Martin Cannon: http://www.redshift.com/~damason/lhreport/articles/mkultra.html. Author of "The Controllers," a famous series of essays on mind-control, Cannon has since repudiated the essays---which remain brilliant.  (Look for them on the Web.)
   For readers interested in the CIA's MK-ULTRA program, useful background can be gleaned from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA.
   And then there are books.  See, especially, John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian Candidate and Martin Lee & Bruce Schlain's Acid Dreams.

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