To the Seventh Power, Felice Picano s

first thriller since The Lure and Eyes,

takes us to the limits of parapsychology

and explodes them into a pyrotechnical

display of action, romance, and sus-

pense.

A strange encounter with a pretty, enig-

matic, teenage girl unsettles Barry

Brescia just as he is becoming comfort-

able with middle age. Kyra Nilsson pos-

sesses an uncanny ability--she seems

to know events from Barry s past. Her

unaccountable familiarity and the hints

she drops about a group of children

with extraordinary powers baffle and

entice him. Then Kyra vanishes, leaving

a letter. Its revelations about her--and

about their relationship--shatter Bar-

ry s life forever, leading him into a past

he d rather have forgotten and toward a

future more amazing and perilous than

he could ever imagine.

Barry s quest for Kyra and for the

truth takes him back to memories of his

youthful liaison with Anna Kuragin, a

beautiful Russian emigre musician. Post

and present blur as Barry finds Anna

again and the two begin to follow the