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Mad Dogs

"You gotta have guts to be nuts."

In a top-secret asylum for former CIA agents who have lost their grip on reality, five insane spies find their beloved psychiatrist dead, killed by a professional assassin. Sensing an obvious setup, the quintet of crazies concoct an ingenious breakout from their high-security institution and hit the road in search of the Enemy. God help the populace when their meds run out . . .

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Traumatized by their experiences in the CIA, they operate under somewhat skewed perceptions of reality. Their training, however, has prepared them to survive in a hostile world—even if that world is the Boston-to-Washington corridor as they chase down the assassin.

A rousing blend of Ken Kesey's darkly satirical masterwork One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nestand Robert Ludlum's spy fiction classic The Bourne Identity,Mad Dogsis a stunning novel of political commentary and a tour-de-force of literary style.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 352 pages

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