Charles Colben, a director of the FBI with use of "The Ability".His use of 'The Ability' is unequaled by anyone he has ever met. He owns a network of private islands, ships, and planes. Arnold Barent, a billionaire industrialist with a penchant for extreme security measures. Willi Borden, also known as Wilhelm Von Borchert, a Nazi Oberst, an Officer in the SS, later reinventing his identity as a Hollywood producer and powerful user of 'The Ability'.Nina Drayton, a childhood friend of Melanie Fuller and an equally powerful user.Melanie Fuller, a powerful user of 'The Ability' at least as far back as the early 1910s in Vienna, Austria.He often helps The Island Club with hopes of becoming a member. Tony Harod, a powerful Hollywood producer with minor use of 'The Ability' which he can only use on females.Natalie Preston, a photographer whose father was killed and is determined to get answers and revenge.Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, initially investigating murders in Charleston, South Carolina.Dr Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust in World War II, spent time in Israel, and who currently works at Columbia University.These non-psychic investigators follow a series of bizarre murders to the conclusion that a cabal of powerful psychics must be stopped. Across multiple timelines, the novel mostly follows two groups of amoral people in 1980, some with aspirations of world domination, as their clashing involves a group of investigators. This Ability has been used throughout history to have a direct or indirect influence, via the perceived charisma of world leaders or the actions of more covert individuals, on everything from individual senseless murders to the Holocaust. ![]() The novel portrays a tiny fraction of humanity that has immense psychic powers, which they refer to as "The Ability.” These powers can be used to completely control people from a distance to commit any physical action, including murder. The first half of the novelette makes up chapter 1 of the novel, while the second half forms chapter 3. ![]() It is based on a novelette of the same title, published in 1983 in the magazine Omni. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award for Best Horror Novel, and the August Derleth Award for Best Novel. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.Carrion Comfort is a science fiction/ horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1989 in hard cover by Dark Harvest and in 1990 in paperback by Warner Books. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Together they create a strange and vulnerable alliance against evil. Ranged against them are a handful of normals: Saul Laski, psychologist and concentration camp survivor, who has devoted his life to tracking down the Nazi vampire von Borchert Natalie Preston, whose father inadvertently and fatally crossed the path of the ancient and deadly Melanie Sheriff Bobby Joe Gentry, dragged in while investigating a series of bizarre murders. But this year something goes wrong and they, and their innocent victims, are plunged into a struggle that will determine the future of the world itself. Each year three of them, Melanie, Willi, and Nina, meet to discuss their on-going competition of vampirism and slaughter. They are 'mind vampires' - creatures with the psychic ability to 'use' humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, feed off their emotions, force them to acts of unspeakable violence.
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