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Title: Psichopath

Author: Gordon Randall Garrett

Illustrator: van Dongen

Release Date: October 20, 2009 [EBook #30304]

Language: English

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PSICHOPATH

By DARREL T. LANGART

_Given psi powers like clairvoyance and telepathy, solving
problems of sabotage would be easy, of course. That is, it
seems that way at first thought!_

Illustrated by van Dongen

* * * * *

The man in the pastel blue topcoat walked with steady purpose, but
without haste, through the chill, wind-swirled drizzle that filled the
air above the streets of Arlington, Virginia. His matching blue
cap-hood was pulled low over his forehead, and the clear, infrared
radiating face mask had been flipped down to protect his chubby cheeks
and round nose from the icy wind.

No one noticed him particularly. He was just another average man who
blended in with all the others who walked the streets that day. No one
recognized him; his face did not appear often in public places, except
in his own state, and, even so, it was a thoroughly ordinary face.
But, as he walked, Senator John Peter Gonzales was keeping a mental,
fine-webbed, four-dimensional net around him, feeling for the
slightest touch of recognition. He wanted no one to connect him in any
way with his intended destination.

It was not his first visit to the six-floor brick building that stood
on a street in a lower-middle-class district of Arlington. Actually,
government business took him there more often than would have been
safe for the average man-on-the-street. For Senator Gonzales, t