Hooked (17 page)

Zeb Marlowe, the scarred, tormented survivor of a top secret CIA brainwashing experiment, has begun to remake his life when Jai Jai Leland, the beautiful, intelligent widow of a man who didn’t survive, asks his help in uncovering the mystery of her husband’s violent death.

Marlowe, struggling to resist his attraction to Jai Jai, is pulled into her quest against his better judgment. As they search for psychiatrist Victor Ressid, creator of the experiments that turn test volunteers into slaves, they uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of government.

Meanwhile, obsessed by his own strange sexual appetites and sudden, unexpected access to unimaginable wealth, Ressid is consumed by fantasies of revenge against Marlowe, the only volunteer to defy him.

Against a background of murder, political intrigue and 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 slave.

With a plot that hurtles forward at electric speed and written with a contemporary feel, BRAINWASHED is set during the paranoid 1970’s of Vietnam and the Watergate scandals. The novel takes place on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean, in Mexico and Ireland, the Philippines, Canada, Washington, DC and in a buried underground torture chamber located on Victor Ressid’s secluded private estate near the Belize border.

BRAINWASHED is based on real-life psychiatric experiments conducted by the CIA in American universities and known by the code name MK-ULTRA.

“BRAINWASHED delivers the goods: thrills, gut-churning suspense, nightmarish terror. Ruth and Michael Harris have delivered another great read and sure bestseller. I dare you to put it down!”
—Bob Mayer, former Green Beret and million-copy bestselling author of AREA 51

BRAINWASHED
, A Thriller, by Ruth and Michael Harris, is available as an e-book and as part of a boxed set,
KILLER THRILLERS
, which includes HOOKED.

Ruth Harris
is a million-copy New York Times bestseller and Romantic Times winner for “best contemporary.” Her critically-acclaimed fiction has been published by Random House, Simon & Schuster and St. Martin's Press. Translated into 19 languages and sold in more than 30 countries, Ruth's bestsellers are now available in e-editions.

Ruth Harris’s novels include
Decades
,
Husbands And Lovers
,
Love And Money
,
Modern Women
and
The Last Romantics
(The Park Avenue Series) as well as two standalone books,
The Chanel Caper
and
Zuri: Africa, An Orphan, A Love Story

The Park Avenue Series is available in two boxed sets:
Books 1-3
and
Books 1-5
.

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MICHAEL HARRIS
was a public relations executive at CBS Television and worked on “The Ed Sullivan Show” for eleven years—he was the first person to welcome the Beatles to America on their initial trip to the United States. He is the author of two critically acclaimed national bestselling memoirs,
The Atomic Times:  My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground
and
Always On Sunday: An Inside View Of Ed Sullivan, The Beatles, Elvis, Sinatra & Ed's Other Guests

THE ATOMIC TIMES is the shocking, funny, sad and raunchy portrait of army life on a nuclear Pacific island in 1955 where troops were used as human guinea pigs during 17 H-bomb tests.

Also available in a boxed set:
Face To Face with The Beatles and the Bomb

Other Books By Ruth Harris

DECADES
20th Century Series, Book #1

Spanning the years from the post-World War II 1940’s to the rebellious “Make Love, Not War” generation of the 1960’s, DECADES is the emotional story of a marriage, a family and three generations of women facing the challenges of their turbulent times.

“Absolutely perfect.”
—Publisher’s Weekly

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DECADES
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HUSBANDS AND LOVERS
20th Century Series, Book #2

Carlys Webber’s lonely and insecure beginnings are in the past but her future is threatened when her loving husband turns into an angry stranger and she is tempted to find comfort in the arms of another man.

“Steamy and fast-paced, you will be spellbound.”
—Cosmopolitan

“A brilliant book. Ruth Harris has all the insight of Joan Didion as she recreates the decades in which her heroines lived.”
—The Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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HUSBANDS AND LOVERS
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LOVE AND MONEY
20th Century Series, Book #3

Rich girl, poor girl. Celebrity, outcast. Sisters and strangers. They do not know of each other’s existence and might never have met until their worlds collide when fate—and murder—bring them face to face.

“FAST-PACED, SUPERIOR FICTION WITH A ZINGING SENSE OF STYLE. Skillfully written, highly commercial. A terrifically satisfying ‘good read.’”
—Fort Lauderdale News Sun-Sentinel

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LOVE AND MONEY
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MODERN WOMEN
20th Century Series, Book #4

MODERN WOMEN, Chick lit meets the Alpha hero. This million copy New York Times bestseller is the “best book I have read in ages! Laugh-out-loud funny in places, touching in others. So enjoyable it’s no wonder it was a bestseller.” —Customer review

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MODERN WOMEN
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THE LAST ROMANTICS
20th Century Series, Book #5