The Silent Mind Directive

In 1960, beneath neon Main Street and Cold War smiles, a disgraced radio engineer uncovers reel-to-reel tapes from an underground program: the Silent Mind Directive. Using subliminal jingles, hypnotic television breaks and patent medicines peddled through charitable fronts, a shadow bureau steers elections, stifles dissent and manufactures consent. Chased by men in gray overcoats and watched by vacuum-tube receivers, he must expose the conspiracy before a nation learns to obey without thinking. A taut, paranoid thriller of atomic-age technology and cigarette-laced politics.