O'Connor will stir your emotions with Half World a mesmerizing novel about reality and the
basic incorruptible value of human relationships. - Inspired by real CIA operations this is
the riveting novel of a fraying CIA analyst who conducts secret mind-control experiments and
the young agent who years later uncovers the appalling legacy of the program and the people
destroyed by it. - From its official sanction in 1953 to its shutdown in 1973 the CIA
clandestinely conducted methods of mind control on unwitting American and Canadian citizens.
This covert and illegal operation Project MKULTRA eventually made national headlines upon the
declassification of thousands of documents in 2001. - Intrigued by the people empowered to
enact such abuses and the legacy of such an operation Scott O'Connor weaves the nuanced and
compelling story of Henry March a CIA agent forced to spearhead a series of insidious
mind-control experiments in San Francisco. With each passing day Henry's existence becomes a
nightmare his identity withering as he works over the hapless men lured into his facility.
Struggling between his duty to his country and his responsibility to his wife and children
Henry finally reaches a breaking point leaving both his project and mind fractured. Amid the
wreckage he disappears becoming the deepest Ultra mystery. - Two decades later Dickie Ashby
a young CIA agent is sent to Los Angeles to infiltrate a group of bank-robbing radicals who
claim to have been abused in a government brainwashing operation years earlier. The members of
the group know they need to find Henry March and that the only bridge to Henry is his daughter
Hannah who lives in the city. Dickie suddenly finds himself dragged into the stunning legacy
of the experiments torn between doing his job helping the victims of Henry's program and
protecting Hannah.
