Telepathic private investigator Quentin Q. Quasar and his partner Nate Braddock are back. They accidentally stumble on a series of kidnapping/murders, and begin to investigate. Eventually, the kidnappers snatch a young man from an Interstate rest area, and Quentin and Nate hear his telepathic cry for help. Armed with that information, they contact their friend George Martin at the sheriff’s office, and manage to catch the kidnappers before they’ve killed the victim. The intended victim was on his way to Orlando to join his boyfriend -- also a telepath -- who’d recently moved there to take a job.<br><br>Meanwhile, Nate’s grandparents fly into Jacksonville from Chattanooga, so Quentin and Nate can drive them to a hospital in Ocala. Nate’s mother has been in a state prison for women located near Ocala, and has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. At the end of a series of hospital visits they encounter and capture the leader of the cult that Nate’s mother and stepfather belonged to. The cult leader and his wife, both of whom had jumped bail before their trials, had just administered poison to Nate’s mother, to keep her from making any sort of deathbed confession about the cult and its activities.

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“Yeah. Well, one evening we’d gone at it pretty hot and heavy, and I don’t remember exactly what we’d just done, but one of us said, {Did you get that?}Then another voice broke into the conversation, and a stranger said, {so did every telepath in three states.}”


“I asked him how many telepaths there were in three states, and he said,{More than you think, and not all of them are friendly.}”


“Wow!” Marco said. “That must have given you pause.”


“Damn right it did,” Quentin said. “Anyway, it turned out he was in a motel on I-95, just outside Savannah; so I met him for breakfast the next morning, and he showed me how to shield myself. He warned me that other telepaths in the world might see Nate and me as a danger to themselves.”


“Really?” Marco said. “What did he mean by that?”


Chapter 3