The Power

by James Mills

American scientist Jack Hammond finds himself involved in a game of cat-and-mouse with a duplicitous and beautiful Soviet agent when he begins investigating the Soviet Union's use of paranormal forces for defense purposes

448 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

James Mills is an American novelist, screenwriter and prize-winning journalist.

Mills wrote two New York Times bestsellers, Report to the Commissioner, a novel, and , a study of international narcotics trafficking. As a result, he testified before a panel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee as an expert. His books The Panic in Needle Park and Report to the Commissioner were later made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

[Smiley III · Rating 5 out of 5]

You start reading this you might be thinking of s book of Chelsea QUINN *YARBRO*'S -- Firecode , say, where characters have to come over others' skepticism of the supernatural. Or David MOREHOUSE'S Psychic WARRIOR: The True Story of AMERICA'S Foremost PSYCHIC *SPY* and the Cover-Up of the TOP-SECRET *STARGATE* PROGRAM , a non-fiction book about the same kind of program. This book is more like Jane JACOBS' Systems of SURVIVAL (1992), a Socratic dialogue putting across things you couldn't get at any other way -- maybe that's what fiction is for. 🤔

By the author of Panic in NEEDLE *PARK*, adapted by Joan DIDION & JOHN GREGORY *DUNNE*, for Al PACINO in his first STARRING *ROLE* -- also the author of the 1170-page The UNDERGROUND *EMPIRE*: WHERE *CRIME* AND *GOVERNMENT* EMBRACE , a Cold-War winding-down era book (1986) that benefits both from revealing structures then in place, as well as the candor that would possible once the "loose lips sink ships" era of motives drifted into the '90s and more relaxed attitudes, in certain parts of government if nowhere else ... did I mention this guy's still alive? Give him his due, if you have the time. He knows more about the world than you might think.

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#YEAH

[Michael Compton · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bizarre but interesting take on the subject of mind control, in which a Russian agent is able to enslave others by her ability to induce sexual bliss. A little out there, a little dated, but there are some truly terrifying scenes when the hero goes up against a seemingly invincible foe.

[Bob Mask · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tight plot.