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Receptor

by Alan Glynn

The sequel to Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, "grippingly imagines the origins of . . . [the] 'smart drug,' which realizes remarkable human potential" ( Entertainment Weekly ). On a Friday evening in 1953, Madison Avenue ad executive Ned Sweeney enjoys a cocktail in the apartment of a strange and charismatic man he met hours earlier. Ned doesn't know it, but he has just become a participant in Project MK-Ultra, a covert, CIA-run study of mind-control techniques. The experience transforms Ned, pulling him away from his wife and young son and into the inner circles of the richest and most powerful people of his day. In a matter of months, he is dead. It is a tragedy Ned's family struggles t

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