
In the early 1970s the FBI’s top brass are confronted with a baffling enigma that defies every label the government has tried over the decades—enemy aliens, radicals, telepaths. Director Andrew J. Burris sits at his desk, frustrated and bewildered, as his deputy Kenneth J. Malone spins the familiar playbook of committees, hearings, and endless publicity, only to discover that this time the mystery must be handled in silence.
The dialogue crackles with bureaucratic irony, exposing the hollow rituals of power while hinting at a deeper, unseen force that could reshape the nation’s fate. As the two men grapple with a problem that refuses to fit into any known category, listeners are drawn into a tense, almost absurd investigation that asks: what do you do when the very tools of government are useless against something you can’t even define?
Language
en
Duration
~7 hours (404K characters)
Series
Psi-Power 3
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2007-08-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1927–1987
A lively, versatile voice in mid-20th-century science fiction and fantasy, he wrote everything from space adventure to clever mystery-fantasy crossovers. He is especially remembered for the Lord Darcy stories, which blend detective fiction with an alternate world shaped by magic.
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1933–2002
A prolific American science fiction writer, he published novels and stories for decades under his own name and several pseudonyms. He is especially remembered for lively, humorous work and for collaborations with Randall Garrett, including stories about the character John Buckner.
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