COWPER, Richard - Time Out of Mind - (1st Edition Hardcover in Wrapper)

(No more than 4 books per order allowed) -  This is an ex-lib - book fair only with shelf-lean - Wrapper good.    >>>   Born John Middleton Murry, Jnr, the son of writer John Middleton Murry, Richard Cowper was the pseudonym under which most of his science fiction was published (he wrote four novels under the name 'Colin Murry'). He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, although he as lucky enough not to see combat. After the war, he read Anglo-Saxon and English at Oxford. His works were shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, British Fantasy and Locus Awards. He died in 2002, four weeks after the death of his wife.   >>>   As a young boy, Laurie Linton encountered a strange apparition: a ghostly man who urgently mouthed a mysterious message: KILL MAGOBION !   -   Years later, as members of the UN Narcotics Security Agency, Linton and the beautiful Carol Kennedy were assigned a special duty: investigation of a drug which endowed its addicts with super human powers.   -   Now, that investigation leads them into a bewildering maze where past and future slide by each other at terrifying speed.   >>>   A stand-alone novel by Richard Cowper.  'Kill!' Young Laurie hears the voices, but he doesn't understand. Why? Who? Is there any connection with the ghost he saw this morning? Only years later, when he has grown up, does he find the answers - and then it's almost too late. As a U.N. Narcotics Security Agent, he investigates the case of a girl addicted to a drug which enables her to teleport objects. He is led to a secret government research establishment where a fascist megalomaniac has harnessed the strange powers of this girl and others like her for a terrifying project of his own -  A chilling science-fiction thriller by the author of 'Clone', described by Edmund Cooper in the Sunday Times as a 'brilliant book destined to become a science-fiction classic.