Very Hard Choices (Baen Books, 2008, ISBN 1416555560), is a science-fiction/suspense-mystery novel from Canadian science fiction author Spider Robinson, due for release on 2008-06-03. The novel is a sequel to Very Bad Deaths, and features its three protagonists, recluse and telepath Zandor "Smelly" Zudenigo, newspaper columnist Russell Walker, and Constable Nika Mandic of the Vancouver Police Department. The novel also introduces Russell's son, Jesse, an American public relations executive. Plot
In this novel, Nika and Russell discover that in order to protect the secret of Smelly's telepathic abilities has brought them into conflict with the Central Intelligence Agency, who have been pursuing him since his escape from the MK Ultra Project in the 1960s.
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