What The Left Hand Was Doing

Spencer Candron arrives at the Society for Mystical and Metaphysical Research, a deliberately crackpot front for a disciplined network of psionic operatives who hide extraordinary work behind absurdity. Beneath the dry banter, quiet professionalism, and eccentric cover stories lies a serious intelligence service built on mental rapport, secrecy, and the management of appearances. Candron is soon briefed on a covert rescue mission: Dr. James Ch'ien, a brilliant physicist believed dead after a political double was executed in his place, is in fact being held prisoner in Communist China. The stakes are enormous. Ch'ien's buried equations may unlock interstellar travel, and with Cold War competition extending to the Moon, Mars, and Venus, both East and West fear what his genius could unleash. Candron infiltrates Peiping in a daring descent from a stratoliner, then slips through the city disguised as the elderly Mr. Ying Lee, using age, courtesy, and perfect social camouflage to vanish into the crowd. As he settles into his hotel and studies the fortified city, he prepares to reach the heavily guarded palace and rescue a man whose knowledge could change the future of humanity. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.