The Mental Freedom Syndicate is a consortium of 'Specials' who are wealthy and powerful individuals who have highly enhanced their psychic powers, and are trying to control who has access to the drug PSI-40, and thus limiting who has the power to perceive information hidden from the normal senses. The Mental Freedom Syndicate is a consortium of 'Specials' who are wealthy and powerful individuals who have highly enhanced their psychic powers, and are trying to control who has access to the drug PSI-40, and thus limiting who has the power to perceive information hidden from the normal senses This is a rather unsatisfying novel of 'the not too distant American future' about a power struggle over the use and distribution of a particular drug, PSI-40, that enhances psychic ability in the user. This is a rather unsatisfying novel of 'the not too distant American future' about a power struggle over the use and distribution of a particular drug, PSI-40, that enhances psychic ability in the user.
That's not a bad thing necessarily, it's just been done before.more It's more of a caper, complete with goons and a femme fatale of sorts, that would have been right at home in the pages of a pulp magazine. There is plenty of action, and not much sociological depth here. The Specials use agents known as "Sensitives" to do their dirty-work, which basically is maintaining their agenda of control by promoting the mental wonder-drug PSI-40, by any means legal and illegal.
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In this case, the detective, Jon Rand is an agent for The Mental Freedom Syndicate, run by a board of "Specials" which are men with full ESP and mind-control powers. By that, I mean the sort of crime novels where the detective pursues one direction but is sidelined by another conspiracy along the way, so that ultimately both conspiracies join into a tidy ending where the villain pulling the strings is revealed to by someone the detective is supposed to have trusted. What happens here is mostly a "secret agent" yarn with elements of 1940s crime novels thrown in.
I have to agree with another reviewer that this novel missed the boat on exploring what may result from a society that chooses to pacified by drugs instead of reality. By that, I mean the sort of crime novels where the detective pursues one direction but is sidelined by another conspiracy along the way, so that ultimately both conspiracies join into a tidy ending wher It's a 2.5 star rating, at best. Powell wouldn't join The Syndicate, so they marked him for death!. KEMP POWELL was a Special whose super-super-intellect didn't require PSI-40.
THE PEOPLE lived for the joys of the vacation colonies where they played orgiastically with liquor, sex, and best of all, PSI-40, which brought them drugged dreams of impossible sensuality. THE SYNDICATE was a group of Specials, ruthless men with super-intellects, who with PSI-40 could probe the minds of friend and foe alike-and even control lesser minds at will.
PSYCHEDELIC-40 was PSI-40, the drug that gave The Syndicate its power and the people their pleasure. THE SYNDICATE was a group of Specials, ruthless men with super-intellects, who with PSI-40 could probe the minds of friend and 1993-A FRIGHTENINGLY PROPHETIC NOVEL OF THE U.S.A RULED BY THE SYNDICATE-MEN WITH SUPER MINDS WHO CAN PROBE THE ORDINARY CITIZEN'S THOUGHTS AT WILL. 1993-A FRIGHTENINGLY PROPHETIC NOVEL OF THE U.S.A RULED BY THE SYNDICATE-MEN WITH SUPER MINDS WHO CAN PROBE THE ORDINARY CITIZEN'S THOUGHTS AT WILL.
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