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The article discusses a novel called "The Samarkand Dimension" by David Wise, which is based on U.S.-Soviet research into paranormal phenomena. The story follows a CIA agent named Markham who is sent to infiltrate a Soviet parapsychology facility in Samarkand. The Soviets are believed to have sabotaged a project through telekinesis. Markham's mission is to report on Soviet research into the paranormal, and he is given permission to cooperate with his captors if his cover is blown. The novel explores concepts such as remote viewing and the manipulation of thoughts in humans and animals. As Markham's cover is compromised, the story becomes intense and suspenseful, with convincing descriptions of interrogation and torture.
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Copyright 198 The Washington Post
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April 26,(-1987, Suyiday, Final Edition
LENGTH: 814 words
HEADLINE: Spying in the Twilight Zone
BYLINE: Rory Quirk
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... pp. $ 16.95
YOU'VE GOT TO hand it to anyone who can create a readable novel out of
U.S.-Soviet research into the paranormal, which is what David Wise has done in
The Samarkand Dimension, an arresting and engaging spy thriller in which blind
... for the launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the CIA literally gets
some very bad vibes, namely that the Soviets have sabotaged the project through
telekinesis -- the ability to move objects through mental concentration. The
agency taps one of its most tried and trusted agents, Markham, to penetrate the
Soviet parapsychology facility at Samarkand, deep in Soviet Central Asia. His
orders are simple: Report back on the state of Soviet research into the
paranormal. And, in the event that his cover is blown and he elects not to kill
himself, he has the agency's blessing to cooperate with his captors rather than
... It's a surreal journey into a world of experiments where documents in
remote locations are accessed by psychics through "remote viewing," thoughts are
"implanted" in unrealizing humans, and laboratory animals are zombieized with
doses of "psychic energy." "You've turned a rabbit into ...
Markham. "True," sniffs a research honcho, "but it's a far cry from being
able to zap a Soviet leader in the Kremlin from a distance of 4,800 miles. In
terms of practical application, we have a long way to go." ...
... Kansas, on the Denver-Chicago run.
AFTER this lengthy lull, Wise gets things rolling as Markham/Weaver is
"dangled to the Soviets as a vulnerable, alcoholic, in-debt American scientist
with access to secret research into the military and intelligence applications
of parapsychology." The KGB bites, and Markham is whisked off to Samarkand to
try to finesse his double agent high wire act for some very skeptical Soviet
interrogators. When his seemingly airtight cover is unexpectedly shredded, the
Soviets start demanding hard answers, and the whole operation unravels with
riveting grimness.
Markham's interrogation and torture are convincingly nightmarish -- "Ludmilla
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