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SpectacularThe action is unrelentingElectrifying. Boston Sunday Herald
The news is shattering: The director of the CIA, Harrison Sinclair, has been killed in a car accident. Sinclair may have been a traitoror the Agency's last honest man. Even his son-in-law, Ben Ellison, an attorney and ex-agent, has heard rumors of sinister forces within the Agency that could have ordered Sinclair's assassination. Soon he is thrust into a web of intrigue and violence beyond his control back into the CIA, and lured into a top-secret espionage project in telepathic ability funded by American intelligence.
Gripping drama in which nothing is quite what it seems. Seattle Times
As the project's first success, Ben uses his extraordinary powers in the perilous search for Vladimir Orlov, the exiled former chairman of the KGBand the only man who might unlock the secret of Sinclair's death and the whereabouts of a multibillion-dollar fortune in gold spirited out of Russia in the last days of the Soviet Union. The hunt for the truth will bring Ben face to face with his past and culminate in a crowded Washington hearing room where, behind high security barriers, a Senate investigating committee is about to call its secret witnessas an assassin prepares to strikein Joseph Finder's Extraordinary Powers.
An extraordinary, powerful bookingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and frighteningly credible. Nelson DeMille
This edition of the book is the deluxe, tall rack mass market paperback.