The Psychopath Plague

Best known for his Elias Kane sequence about an intelligently moody detective and his superpowered sidekick: The Psychopath Plague (1978), The Imperator Plot (1982) and Paradox Planet (1988). The series seems incomplete; but, although a template interminability attends Kane's repeated assignments, granted him by the current Imperator who rules Earth and several colonies, the passage of time is clearly marked throughout: the woman Kane falls in love with and marries in the 1st vol -- whose deadly plague has been induced by aliens -- is murdered in the 2nd; and the Imperator who is beheaded, but remains alive, in the 2nd -- which concerns this attempted assassination -- has been succeeded in the 3rd, which is set on a heavy-gravity colony planet. A sense of potential interestingness pervades even the most convincingly unambitious of the author's works' (John Clute - Encyclopedia of SF)


Genre: Science Fiction