The Penal Cluster - Softcover

Jorgensen, Ivar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1437843476 ISBN 13: 9781437843477

Publisher: IndyPublish, 2008

Synopsis

Excerpt: ... his heavy face becoming expressionless. "Ah, Houston. Yes; sit down. You did a fine job on that London affair; that's what I call coming through at the last moment." "How so?" "Your orders to return," he said, "were cut before you found your man. We have a much more important case for you than some petty pilfering Controller. We are after much more dangerous game." Houston nodded. "I see." Inwardly, he wondered. It was almost as if Reinhardt knew that Houston had found out that the recall had come early. Houston would have given his right arm at that moment to be able to probe Reinhardt's mind. But he held himself back. He had, in the past, sent tentative probes toward the Division Chief and found nothing, but he didn't know whether it would be safe now or not. It would be better to wait. Reinhardt stood up, walked to the wall, and turned on a display screen. He twisted a knob to a certain setting, and a map of Manhattan Island sprang onto the screen in glowing color. "As you know," Reinhardt said pedantically, "no Controller can do a perfect job of controlling a normal person. No matter how much he may want to make John Smith act naturally, some of the personality of the Controller will show up in the actions of John Smith. Am I correct?" Houston nodded without saying anything. The question was purely rhetorical, and the statement was perfectly correct. "Very well, then," Reinhardt continued, "by means of these peculiarities, our psychologists have found that there is widespread, but very subtle controlling going on right in the UN General Assembly itself! The amazing thing is that they all bear the

About this edition

• Publisher: IndyPublish
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1437843476
• ISBN 13: 9781437843477
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66