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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... the spectators were desolated by the knowledge that they had been deprived not only of their hereditary sovereign, but his remains as well. The Royals struggled to sustain their regal bearing. Prince Kewart MIND GAMES Walling 6.
William Walling. The Royals struggled to sustain their regal bearing. Prince Kewart sat stiffly, knees together, unseeing eyes staring straight ahead. Proud and expressionless beside him in the ornate coach, the veiled widow who was his ...
... Prince Kewart ab Kraan would accede to the Throne, thereby perpetuating an unbroken succession of hereditary monarchs stretching back to not many standard decades after the neohuman colony's founding. Strangely enough, news of the ...
... prince's words ricocheted in his mind like a hot marble, accompanied by strong emotional tremors emanating from him. Klavik sensed his impetuous nature, his fierce, forceful resolve. The uncompromising statement also brought Kurani up ...