Terry L Shaffer

Charlie Perkins Terry L Shaffer

Charlie Perkins has lost his psionic abilities, but seems to have rebounded into a peaceful life with his wife, Kelly, and young son. That is, until the boy begins to demonstrate that he has inherited "the touch", Charlie's psionic abilities. Fearful that the US National Security Agency (NSA) will force them to surrender their son in the interests of national security, Charlie and Kelly agree not to tell anyone except their closest friends. Charlie and Kelly's Russian pursuers seem to have accepted the premise that Charlie is no longer a threat, until, with lightning swiftness, they strike. Little Charlie is kidnapped and spirited away to Moscow where he is locked away in, the Serbsky Center, a high security mental institution, for the next thirteen years. During his incarceration, Charlie grows into his psionic abilities but keeps them concealed from his Russian captors on the advice of his father with whom he is in regular telepathic contact. When Charli (the Russian equivalent of the English Charlie) turns fourteen, he is sent to the Suvorov Military School. There he adapts to being with other students and discovers that he has a talent for languages and decides that his future lies with becoming a spy for the US. After graduating first in his class Charlie matriculates at the Moscow State Linguistic University. There he makes new friends and even acquires a girlfriend which further hampers his father's attempts to get him out of Russia. He is tasked by his mentor, Charlie's old nemesis, Major General Yakovlev, with infiltrating a dissident group on campus and reporting back to the General at the SVR (Russian Foreign Intelligence Service). When Charli is discovered, he kicks over a hornet's nest of activity with him in the center, the target of organized crime, the FSB (Federal Security Service) and the SVR and must use his psionic abilities to escape