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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: The ultimate interrogation device.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Stellar 4 Anthology, 1978
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2005

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Words: 11079
Reading time: 31-44 min.
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Even before the conscious part of his mind registered that he was awake, his reflexes had taken control. The slow rhythm of his breathing remained unbroken; not a muscle of his body stirred. To all appearances he was still sound asleep, but already his brain, now fully alert, was sifting the information streaming in through his senses.

There were no alarm bells ringing in his head--no half-remembered echo of perhaps the creak of a shoe, the rustle of a sleeve, or the barely audible catching of breath that would have betrayed the presence of somebody in the room. He could detect no change in the background pattern of sound and smell that he had recorded before falling asleep.

Nothing abnormal, then. Just the routine beginning of another day.

He opened his eyes, swept around the darkness of his hotel room for anything irregular, then rolled over and switched on the bedside light. He yawned, drawing the first clean breath of the new day deep into his lungs, and stretched, long and luxuriously, allowing the energy that accumulates through eight hours of complete rest to charge every nerve and fiber of his body. After holding the position for perhaps ten seconds, the man who currently called himself Hadley Krassen relaxed, and returned fully to wakefulness.

His watch told him it was 6:35 A.M. He turned his head to address the bedside console. "House computer."