Half World

A “beautiful literary thriller” ( Los Angeles Review of Books ) inspired by the shocking history of a secret CIA mind-control program, Half World is “the perfect book for our present moment” ( The Daily Beast ). In the 1950s the CIA began a decades-long clandestine operation, known as Project MKULTRA, in which unwitting American citizens were subjected to insidious drug and mind-control experiments. Haunted by these real-life events, acclaimed novelist Scott O’Connor has crafted a riveting novel