BRAINWASHED: A Thriller (Killer Thrillers Book 1)

Zeb Marlowe is the physically scarred and invisibly wounded survivor of a top secret CIA brainwashing experiment. Jai Jai Leland is the beautiful, young widow of a man who didn't survive.

Marlowe, struggling to resist his attraction to Jai Jai, is pulled into her quest to solve the mystery of her husband's violent death. Together, they search for psychiatrist Victor Ressid, creator of the experiments that hijacked minds and turned student volunteers into slaves.

Meanwhile, Ressid is consumed by fantasies of revenge against Marlowe, the only volunteer to defy him.

Against a background of escalating global terrorism, Marlowe and Jai Jai uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of government. They 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, BRAINWASHED  takes place on the beautiful islands of the Caribbean, in Damascus and Ireland, the Philippines, Canada, Washington, DC--and in an underground torture chamber located on Victor Ressid's secluded private estate.

BRAINWASHED is based on the 1960s 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