The Hunt For Pierre JNR
David M. Henley
Harper Voyager, Jul 1 2014, $16.99
ISBN: 9780732295608
By the middle of the twenty-second century, a small segment of the
twenty billion humans residing inside the domes evolved with extrasensory mental
powers. Derogatorily dubbed psionics by
those who feared their superiority will allow dominance if unchecked; the World
Union established the Services with a mission to control these dangerous
mutants. The Services aggressively capture,
isolate and incarcerate psionics on remote islands in order to inhibit the impact
of psi skills and prevent a revolt.
In 2151 an experiment mated registered Psionics Pierre Sandro and
Mary Kastonovich; which leads to giving birth to Pierre Jnr. Three months later, Pierre Jnr escapes and
vanishes. In spite of a massive manhunt
by the Services, he is not found and assumed dead as he is a baby even with
special kinetic skills never remotely recorded before.
However, the worst nightmare of those in power surfaces in 2159
when a sighting of eight year old Pierre Jnr is confirmed by the Weave; as the
legend of a psi with the uncanny ability to control others’ minds lives. The Services assigns the best psi hunters of
the Primacy military wing abetted by telepath Peter Lazarus who surrendered
after three decades of freedom beneath the radar to prevent the most powerful psi
ever, who he believed caused his sister to suicide, from killing the world.
The Hunt for Pierre Jnr is a superb science fiction thriller that
extrapolates present day issues like the environment and related moral and
amoral responses into the next century. Rapidly
changing points of view makes it initially difficult to follow who’s who, but
also brings a fabulous frantic desperate pace to this character-driven yet
action-packed futuristic thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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