The special gift was given to only a few - the gift of seeing into another mind, of fusing with another consciousness, of healing. As a doctor, Victor Coleman used the gift to help others - to cure the mental agonies suffered in the cities, where hate and prejudice were distorting the sanity of man.

He had never intended to kill - never believed his own power could turn into such an elemental, destructive force. But then he had never seen someone he loved murdered before - murdered by the tidal wave of hate which he had been fighting for so long. And the power, once released, was to become a violent, unpredictable factor in the country of the mind...