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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“I went back to my hotel and checked the monitors online, just in time to see her come out of the shower naked—she’s a real blonde, by the way. She actually smiled, waved at the camera, and cupped her oversized tits for my benefit. Go figure.”


“Some people are pretty fucked up, aren’t they?” Nate said.


“That’s for sure,” Dwight said. “Maybe she was an exhibitionist at heart.”


“Meanwhile, we’ve finished our sandwiches,” Nate said. “It’s time to go out to The Avenues. Want to come with us, Q?”


“You know you don’t enjoy having me tagging along when you go to the mall, babe,” Quentin said. “Besides, I’ve got a backlog of paperwork waiting for me in my office.”


“That’s true,” Nate said. “We’ll see you in time to go to the train station.”


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