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and fraying. And the ideas he expounds are foreign to the American social psyche.
They add seriously to the strain. People admire him or they hate him, and polarization
is something we don't need more of.


"Meanwhile, his Millennium Foundation has become a public relations organization
for his self-image and metaphysical philosophy . . ."


The tall man pressed the mute switch. Idiot, he thought grimacing. He's got something
worthwhile to say, and dresses it in liberal-humanist babble. His fork pierced a cut
bean, some peas, and a fragment of diced carrot, raising them to his thin lips as the
two men mouthed soundlessly on the screen. Ngunda Aran. Again he grimaced. Satan
smiling, garbed in good works.


He would, he decided, explore some possibilities.
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PART ONE
A TIME OF DISORDERS
1

. . . . Ngunda Elija Aran is one of the more dangerous men in the world. He is
far more dangerous than E. David Hilliard was, not because he appears more
plausibleтАФhe doesn'tтАФbut because he has emerged in a much more
dangerous time, when an increasingly large part of the population is
susceptible to such fraud.


Charles Heilemann, D.Sc.
Emeritus Professor of Physics
California State University, Northridge
Letters page, San Francisco Chronicle
It even began oddly, the door chimes startling Lee, making her jump. Ben was
downstairs doing laundry, so she put aside the Times business section, went to the
door, and after a moment's hesitation, opened it.


A brown, brightly cheerful face confronted her, topping a small wiry body wearing
jeans and a black T-shirt. The T-shirt was decorated with a running, space-suited
figure pursued by a unicorn.


White teeth flashed. "Mrs. Shoreff, I've come to talk with you and Ben. My name is
Lor Lu." The figure bowed, palms pressed together in front of him. "Holy man
extraordinary," he added, eyes laughing. When she simply stared, he spoke again.
"He's in the basement, doing laundry. Would you get him please?"