Out Like A Light

Kenneth Malone, an FBI agent with a talent for handling telepathic oddities, is expecting a break when Director Andrew J. Burris calls him in. Instead, Burris hands him a baffling assignment: a stolen red Cadillac has crossed state lines into New York, and something impossible happened when police tried to inspect it. Sergeant Jukovsky was knocked unconscious, witnesses contradicted one another, and the car later seemed to drive itself down the West Side Highway before crashing and burning at 125th Street with no driver ever found. Soon Malone is found dazed on a New York sidewalk, battered, memory-blurred, and tied to the vanished Cadillac in ways he can't yet explain. As he and the police struggle to make sense of his blackout, the case widens into a comic, suspenseful tangle of espionage, psychic intrigue, and absurdity. Malone follows leads on the mysterious "Silent Spooks," sparring with Lieutenant Lynch, while trying to keep his life from sliding entirely out of control. Between tequila, a downtown date with Dorothy, and a scramble for coveted "Hot Seat" tickets, this offbeat adventure mixes hardboiled FBI action with romance, wit, and surreal mystery. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.