Joseph Tinker 34 min read

FBI agent Gyp is startled from his morning shave by an urgent call from his boss, Director George Kelly, a telepath has fallen into the hands of a dangerous gang, and only Gyp can handle it.

Joseph Tinker's 1959 story is a sharp first-contact and hard-SF tale. Clever, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a fast-moving story where a government agent must recover a captured telepath before ruthless criminals can exploit the mind-reader's power, in a well-turned golden-age piece of psi-powered intrigue and suspense.

In its time

Published in 1959, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

34 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

John Schoenherr