book cover of The Sensitives
 

The Sensitives

(1987)
(The first book in the Sensitives series)
A novel by

 
 
SCIENCE FICTION-BORN WITH THE ABILITY TO READ MINDS THE WAY ORDINARY PEOPLE READ NEWSPAPERS,THE SENSITIVES ARE LITERALLY ONE IN A MILLION.ZEALOUSLY SOUGHT AND GUARDED BY THE WORLD'S INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES,THE SENSITIVES ARE DOOMED-NOT ONE HAS EVER REACHED IT'S THIRTY FIFTH BIRTHDAY.FOR ALL HIS ADULT LIFE BEN SLADE HAS USED HIS GIFT ON BEHALF OF THE CENTRE,AND GIVEN HIS LOYALTY TO POP,WHO WATCHES PROTECTIVELY OVER THE AMERICAN SENSITIVES.BUT WHEN BEN AND HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART,NADIA PETROVNA,DECIDE TO RISK EVERYTHING TO BE TOGETHER,THEIR DECISION HAS TERRIFYING AND FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES BOTH FOR THEMSELVES AND FOR EVERY OTHER SENSITIVE FOR WHOM TIME IS RUNNING OUT.FOR NOT EVEN THEIR STRANGE ABILITY CAN PENETRATE THE DARK HEART OF THE INTELLIGENCE UNDERWORLD-A REALM WHERE,FOR THE GOOD OF THE STATE,ANY TREACHERY IS PERMISSABLE AND WHERE PREY AND PREDATOR BECOME IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL APART.


Genre: Mystery

Visitors also looked at these books


Used availability for Herbert Burkholz's The Sensitives


About Fantastic Fiction       Information for Authors