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When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins to figure that the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed...

"While trying to protect one of his patients from a murderer, a plastic surgeon discovers that the patient is connected with a research facility that plans to use her image on TV as part of a mind control experiment." --

Doug and Bob McKenzie go on quest for free beer, and some really bizarre things happen along the way.

All the McKenzie brothers want is a free case of beer and a quiet place to belch, so they put a mouse in a beer bottle and go to the Elsinore Brewery to complain. There they encounter the diabolical Brewmeister Smith who has concocted a scheme to rule the world by contaminating Elsinore Beer with a mind-controlling chemical.

"When a psychiatrist's research is hijacked by a government agency experimenting in mind control, he is recruited to run a subsect of Project MKULTRA in a Mississippi mental hospital."--

"A 32-year-old woman suffering from bipolar disorder comes to suspect the proprietor of the state-of-the-art "smart apartment" she and her husband just moved into is using the building's residents as unwitting guinea pigs for a "synthetic telepathy" brainwashing plot with dire global ramifications." --

Computer expert Morgan Sullivan joins the ranks of a huge multinational company, assumes a new identity to investigate corporate espionage, and finds himself caught up in a vicious cycle of paranoia and mistrust. Then along comes Rita, a secret agent, who informs Sullivan that he's being brainwashed and that she is the only one who can help him.

Confident the ransom will be easy money, ex-con Max kidnaps an 8-year-old boy and escapes to an eerie, deserted cabin in the woods with his fiancée and two shady associates. But Max soon realizes that this is no ordinary kidnapping-- and this is no ordinary child. Using haunting supernatural abilities to manipulate the minds of his captors, the boy maliciously turns them against each other in a cruel and deadly game.

It is the height of the Cold War, and ex-thief Harry Palmer, now reluctantly working as a secret agent, has been called in to investigate a strange occurrence among a number of leading scientists. It seems the scientists have been kidnapped, but reappear only days after the kidnapping, brainwashed and useless. During the course of the investigation, a tape is uncovered with the word "Ipcress" on it.

"Set in the early fifties, this razor-sharp adaptation of the novel by Richard Condon concerns the decorated U.S. Army sergeant Raymond Shaw, who as a prisoner during the Korean War is brainwashed into being a sleeper assassin in a Communist conspiracy, and a fellow POW who slowly uncovers the sinister plot." --