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It began with the Agency's experiments. When their covert operations that went beyond what the government would accept, that should have been the end of it. But the Agency had taken on a life of its own, and had found an extremely wealthy new master. And so the experiments continued. Some people had been a willing part of the studies, some unsuspecting victims. None knew what the ultimate goal was, nor did anyone guess what had happened to the failures. Inevitably there were subjects who escaped from -- or were released from -- the Agency's control. And there were their children... Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Our heroine, 17-year old Allison Boyle, is being stalked by creepy high school dropout Chuck Wilson, and it is through his escalating series of unwanted advances to Allison that her increasing telekinetic powers are manifested at the same time she is having lots of crippling migraines, a sign of her developing telekinetic powers and which her mother Carol is in denial about as a sign of Allison’s inherited ability.
Meanwhile, adding to the mysteries and chaos and stress of Allison’s life, are a serious of very late-night calls she overhears between her mother and a man named John who is worried about Allison’s headaches and the attention it may bring from them. We know John is Allison’s father, who Carol always claimed was dead, from the opening chapter which showed John and Carol as employees of the sinister PRI organization. Theykept their relationship and resulting child secret, but, after discovering some disturbing PRI archives and information about John, Carol took four year old Allison and fled.
PRI is interested in Chuck who is a telepath on their watch list. But, when Allison kills him during an attempted rape, she comes to the notice of PRI and their creepy kid telepath Elroy.
Orders are given to the PRI field team to bring Allison and her mother in. But Allison, figuring out form some papers in her mother’s possession, that she’s telekinetic, has been systematically testing out her powers. After a series of violent confrontations, Allison and her friend Macy flee Cleveland on a road trip to Washington DC to meet John. Along the way, there will be plenty of action and some spectacular scenes with her PRI pursuers.
But the professionals at PRI aren’t so easily thwarted and, eventually, Allison finds herself at PRI headquarters. It’s a creepy place, a jail and lab trying to appear as something else. Looking over the introduction packet she’s handed, Allison’s
eyes kept misting over at the details, but the text felt like a collage cut from brochures advertising resort hotels, Ivy League universities, and high-class drug treatment programs.
This part of the story allows Krane to develop his fascination with political and social dynamics, who obeys whom and why. Most of the students are daily drugged to quell their psychic powers, but not all, and that includes PRI’s favorite and most powerful psychic, the telepyrokinetic Jessica Mason. She’s is not happy she may be supplanted by Allison.
Most of the students accept PRI as their new parents, but there are also rebels.
I enjoyed this book which moved along quite fast despite its length. The most novel part of the story was PRI and its school though Krane also does an excellent job depicting Allison’s exploration of her powers.
However, the story’s end brought to mind a remark by the late Ed Bryant, author and one-time Locus book reviewer: sometimes the most interesting part of a story is what happened after a novel ends and how this is all going to be explained to the authorities. ( )