Fifty Per Cent Prophet

Dr. Joachim looks like a carnival mystic, but beneath the robes and theatrics he is Peter J. Forsythe, a sharp-eyed confidence man whose "prophecies" may be part intuition, part fraud, and part something far stranger. When glamorous stripper Susan thanks him for steering her away from a doomed flight, the encounter opens into a world where hidden motives, practiced deception, and genuine precognition are dangerously hard to tell apart. That ambiguity draws him into the Society for Mystical and Metaphysical Research, a sprawling front for occult seekers and secret investigators led by the true believer J. Harlan Balfour and the cool, telepathic Brian Taggert. Behind the harmless façade of eccentrics and mediums, the Society is probing a mysterious predictor whose warnings have preceded disasters around the globe, from reactor explosions to ship disappearances and a dam collapse. The same machine-typed letters point to Joachim/Forsythe—and to a looming meteor strike on Moonbase One. As Forsythe is brought into the project, he finds his "gift" tested with electronic equipment, volunteer subjects, and computer analysis, while telepathic minds quietly surround the work. A secret government investigation grows more urgent amid a kidnapped scientist, a disrupted antigravity project, and Soviet suspicion over unusual rocket traffic. In this tense blend of science fiction, espionage, and psychic intrigue, the central question remains: is Forsythe a fraud, a prophet, or both? This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.