Vintage paperback

WHAT GOOD IS A BILLION-DOLLAR BRAIN WHEN THERE'S THE DEVIL TO PAY? It's hell on earth for Colin Garrett-the Big Brain-when an assignment to investigate the President's chief advisor on foreign affairs leads him to the Beelzebub Club. The elite club is a haven of sex and Satanism for Senators and other Washington headliners; it may also be a front for undesirable political activists. Garrett's Big Brain usually functions faster than a computer, allowing him to probe men's minds and read their thoughts. But now a deadly, impenetrable mind shield, wielded by Beelzebub, has Garrett almost helpless in a masterful duel of brain waves. Because if just one circuit shorts, it will blow out the Big Brain forever!

THE BIG BRAIN IS POWERLESS... And so Is the rest of the country. Call It energy crisis. black-out, magnetic warp .. call It what you will, but there is lust no electricity, plain and simple. tights won't light, motors won't start. auxiliary generators are dead. And without any AC. DC Is on Its knees, reedy to surrender. Even Colin Garrett, whose super brain can untangle the most Incomprehensible technical problem. finds this truly a current conundrum. But even If he has to short every circuit in his brain. Garrett must learn who pulled the switch on Washington!