Mind GamesConditioned to enhance an inborn ability to acutely perceive another's emotional state, Klavik, security director of a massive world ruled by the sole monarchy in neohuman interstellar society, investigates the ruler's assassination while on holiday in parsecs-distant Eden, a terraformed pleasure world operated by a distant syndicate peopled by alien exotics. A pair of royal companions force themselves upon Klavik during his sojourn in Eden, where his empathic perception “sixth sense” enables him to fasten on a nervous official as a prime suspect to interrogate, but is frustrated because his energies must be channeled toward protecting his illustrious companions. Eden's planetary director, Shatterhand, ushers the threesome into a “hall of mirrors” where nothing is as it seems. After feints and ploys designed to distract or frighten he and his charges away, Klavik senses “nibblings” at the limbic fringes of his mind, and intuits the the presence of an alien telepath. Sly mental assaults persist until his charges are taken hostage, and the ultimate confrontation erupts in a rapacious battle of wills. |
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... leading nowhere. “Wouldn't you think it highly unlikely,” he asked “for our gracious sovereign to arrange for the theft of costly, weapons grade thorium isotope?” Hoping the off-the-wall query would nudge loose an emotional spike, he ...
... Leading the way into the Palace's opulent, high-ceilinged library, his craggy features composed by what Klavik judged sheer force of will, the PM's manner was stiff, uncompromising. He commanded the library's parquetried double doors to ...
... leading the government while spending sleepless nights fretting about how you were faring in that nest of degenerate sybarites. No, we shall go together. There, you've had my last word on it. My former flagship recently underwent ...
... leading them around by the nose could get me injured, or worse.” “A remote possibility,” admitted Shatterhand, “but still a possibility. The Syndicate has been briefed on your role. You no longer have a choice in the matter.” The woman ...
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