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OUT LIKE A LIGHT - By MARK PHILLIPS
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Kenneth Malone, a hulking FBI operative with a penchant for night‑time wanderings, finds his life upended when a seemingly ordinary street‑side encounter spirals into a baffling mystery. After a seductive stranger lures him into his sleek red Cadillac, Malone awakens under a solitary streetlamp with a pounding head and no memory of how he got there. The surreal scene sets the tone for a case that blends hard‑boiled detective work with off‑beat, almost psychedelic twists.
As Malone scrambles to piece together the missing moments, he confronts a world of telepathic spies, strange experiments, and a city that feels both familiar and oddly distorted. The narrative balances witty banter, vivid noir imagery, and a creeping sense of unease, inviting listeners to join an unconventional sleuth on a quest for answers that may be as elusive as the dream he just left behind.
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (296K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Greg Bergquist, Bruce Albrecht and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
Jan 28, 2008
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1927–1987
A prolific writer of science fiction and fantasy, he became best known for the witty Lord Darcy stories, where magic is treated as a rigorous science in an alternate-history world. He also collaborated with Robert Silverberg and wrote under a remarkable range of pseudonyms.
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1933–2002
A prolific American science-fiction writer, Laurence M. Janifer explored telepathy, alien worlds, and life on the edges of civilization. He is especially remembered for the Survivor novels and for his collaborations with Randall Garrett under the name Mark Phillips.
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