Blindfold - Softcover

Anderson, Kevin J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446602477 ISBN 13: 9780446602471

Publisher: Warner Books, 1995

Synopsis

Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren unsuccessfully puts his fate in the hands of Truthsayer Kalliana, a telepathic justice from the Atlas colony who is shaken by her fading powers and mounting evidence that Troy is innocent. Original.

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Review

Since his first SF novel, Resurrection, Inc. in 1988, Kevin J. Anderson has become a prolific author now probably best known for Star Wars and X-Files spin-off novels. Blindfold uses a traditional SF background and gimmick. A struggling human colony on the inhospitable planet Atlas has discovered the drug "Veritas", theoretically promising perfect justice since trained Truthsayers dosed with Veritas can read the minds of the accused. But the infallible system goes wrong--and justice is once again blindfolded--thanks to a high-level conspiracy involving one power-mad landowner and the orbital lab that refines the drug. Before long, a falsely convicted man and a disgraced woman Truthsayer are on the run together. The bad guys' schemes are duly exposed, perhaps a little too easily--one major conspirator simply has a change of heart and tells all. The unlikeliest plot turn: the leading Truthsayer, who by this time is aware that the conspiracy has deliberately poisoned someone with contaminated Veritas, confronts the villain with his guilt and then accepts a dose of unbranded Veritas from him. Blindfold is efficiently written SF action-adventure with some nice surprises, twists and daring escapes--a page-turning entertainment rather than a novel written at full stretch. --David Langford

Review

‘Kevin Anderson is the heir apparent to Arthur C. Clarke’
Daniel Keys Moran

Edition details

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0446602477
• ISBN 13: 9780446602471
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 377