Program for a Puppet

by Roland Perry

The world's fastest and most powerful mega-computer — trained to pursue its program relentlessly ... to terminate anything in its way.The brainchild of a father and son — heads of Lasercomp, the world's largest multinational.America has it. Russia has it. And a beautiful American journalist has been killed trying to expose its dark purpose.But Ed Graham, her lover, will carry on — caught between the CIA, the KGB, British intelligence, and a network of assassins...Because he alone knows the master to create a puppet President of the United States.And Phase One is about to begin.

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First published October 1, 1981

About the author

Professor Roland Perry (born 11 October 1946) is a Melbourne-based author best known for his books on history, especially Australia in the two world wars. His Monash: The Outsider Who Won The War, won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' 'Melbourne University Publishing Award' in 2004. The judges described it as 'a model of the biographer's art. In the Queen's Birthday Honours of June 2011, Perry was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia 'for services to literature as an author.In October 2011, Monash University awarded Perry a Fellowship for 'high achievement as a writer, author, film producer and journalist.His sports books include biographies of Sir Donald Bradman, Steve Waugh, Keith Miller and Shane Warne. Perry has written on espionage, specialising in the British Cambridge Ring of Russian agents. He has also published three works of fiction and produced more than 20 documentary films. Perry has been a member of the National Archives of Australia Advisory Council since 2006.

In late 2012 Perry accepted an adjunct appointment at Monash University as a Professor, with the title ‘Writer-in-Residence’ in the University’s Arts Faculty.

Reviews

[Ray McCarthy · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a documentary?

[Sherry]

Loved it back then, and it is still available to read today.