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What the Left Hand Was Doing

Randall Garrett

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What the Left Hand Was Doing

Randall Garrett

American Literature, Novels, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

The mind is the ultimate weapon, and in the wrong hands, it's the most dangerous thing on Earth. Spencer Candron knows this better than anyone: he's one of the few humans capable of moving matter with thought alone, a skill that makes him invaluable to the Society for Mystical and Metaphysical Research and a priority target for every intelligence agency on the planet. When American physicist Dr. James Ch'ien - a man who knows secrets that could tilt the Cold War's fragile balance - is locked away in a high-security Chinese prison, Candron is sent to pull off the impossible. Get in. Get the physicist. Get out. No one can know. The operation demands flawless disguise, ironclad cover stories, and the kind of mental discipline that separates the gifted from the broken. But as Candron pushes his psionic abilities to their limits, he discovers something more unsettling than any enemy agent: the true nature of what he can do - and how little he understands his own power. Part espionage thriller, part philosophical inquiry into consciousness, this is Golden Age science fiction at its most cerebral and paranoid.

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