The Psilent Partner

Martin Black can read minds. It's a gift that's made him useful to powerful people, and a burden he's never quite learned to carry. When corporate shark Dale V. Lawrence walks into his office seeking a psi's edge in a high-stakes atomic venture, Black sees salvation: enough money to finally escape the precarious life of a psychic for hire. But the deal smells wrong. The Business Ethics Bureau is sniffing around. And the deeper Black probes into Lawrence's operations, the more he realizes he's not just reading minds, he's becoming one of them, trading pieces of his conscience for a seat at the table. What begins as a simple telepathic consultation spirals into something far darker: a partnership that will leave Black wielding power he never wanted, in a world where the line between using people and being used has dissolved entirely. For fans of mid-century corporate thrillers and psychological science fiction, this is a queasy, compelling portrait of what happens when extraordinary ability meets ordinary ambition.