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The Mindwarpers
By Eric Frank Russell
1965

WARNING: LOCK YOUR BRAIN
The government's most vital scientific laboratory. No enemy could steal its
secrets, because no enemy could possibly get in.
But men's minds were another matter.
It began with key scientists leaving-just quitting their jobs and drifting away.
Then master metallurgist Richard Bransome began to remember a past he had
completely forgotten--a past in which he had been a cold-blooded murderer. And
he set out on a strange, solitary mission to learn the facts-the facts about himself,
and the facts about America's most incredible enemy.
But how could he do either... when he couldn't even trust his own sanity?
Eric Frank Russell, England's great science-fiction writer, returns in this book
to the kind of theme he explored in his classic Sinister Barrier and Dreadful
Sanctuary. The result is an astonishing tour de force of science and suspense.

WHY HAD HE KILLED ARLINE?
The details of that act now shone vividly in his memory as if embossed
thereon a few days ago rather than twenty years back. But on preceding and
subsequent events he was decidedly hazy.
What had been her hold over him? A theft? An armed robbery? An
embezzlement or a forgery?
Wearily he rubbed his forehead, knowing that intense nervous strain can play
hob with rational thought. Was some latent abnormality-first evident twenty years
ago-now reasserting itself? Was he as sane as he believed himself to be?
He didn't know about THE MINDWARPERS . . . yet.


COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED
THE MINDWARPERS
Eric Frank Russell
LANCER BOOKS
NEW YORK
A LANCER BOOK тАв 1965
THE MINDWARPERS
Copyright ┬й 1966 by Lancer Books, Inc.
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ONE
The governmental research establishment, the very heart of the country's
scientific effort, was huge and formidable by any standard, even that of the
technological twentieth century. By comparison, Fort Knox and Alcatraz, the
Bastille and the Kremlin were as frontier forts built with wood logs. Yet it was
vulnerable. Hostile eyes had examined what little could be seen of it, hostile