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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“Let’s go, Nate, and bring that tablet with you,” Quentin said, and opened the passenger door. He killed the lights, and stepped out of the car. Nate followed him to the driver’s side of the police car, and in the moonlight they saw two men get out of the car. One on the driver’s side, and one on the passenger’s side.


“Okay, Q. We’re here,” George said.


“Is that Carl with you?” Quentin said.


“Yes. Now, how about telling us what’s going on?”


Quentin and Nate brought the two policemen up-to-date on their adventures tailing Harv and Marv.


“Holy shit, Q,” Carl said. “You sure got lucky, didn’t you?”


“Maybe,” Quentin said, “but while we’ve been running around in the boondocks chasing these guys, we aren’t earning any money.”


“That’s true,” George said, “but if what you say turns out to be true, you’ll have saved a bunch of lives.”


“Where are they now, Nate?” Quentin said.


Chapter 25