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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{The guy standing in front of you. I’m Quentin, and I’m a private detective. My partner Nate and I are the ones who told the police about your kidnapping.}


{Needless to say, we don’t want the cops to know how we knew about it,} Quentin sent.{Can you play along with that?}


George patiently took down the victim’s name, address, and other information. In the process, they learned that Dwight was on his way to Orlando, but when he was on I-295 going around Jacksonville, he’d turned onto I-10 by mistake, because he’d been getting sleepy at the wheel. Once he realized his mistake, he’d continued to the first rest area, and had planned to take a nap before he turned east on I-10 and headed back to I-295.


“I don’t think you should drive anywhere tonight, Sir,” George said. “Besides, I’ll need you to come down to the Sheriff’s office in the morning and make a full statement.”


Chapter 26