Finished reading: The Whisper of the Axe 📚. I’d guess most people only know Richard Condon thanks to THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, but he wrote a whole bunch of wacky conspiracy novels. In this case, it’s the story of a grassroots movement to stage a huge terror attack in the US on July 4, 1976, funded by heroin sales and aided by covert Chinese training in a hidden terrorist camp. Featuring many secret agents, brainwashing, organized crime, and double-crosses, it literally resolves in the last sentence on the last page, and then leaves the reader wondering. A fine read.