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Blindfold
Kevin J. Anderson
Stunning psychic science thriller by the bestselling author of X-Files: Ground Zero and X-Files: Ruins.Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by Truthsayers. Trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas – a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty – Truthsayers are justice. Infallible. Beyond appeal.Troy Boren is falsely accused of murder. He put his trust in the young Truthsayer Kalliana, until, impossibly, she convicts him. Her power is fading and nobody can work it out.A conspiracy is taking place that threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth and justice, Atlas will certainly fall.
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Dedication (#ulink_33e0f8f3-d6e7-5059-a514-e0e35d4fc080)
This book is for
KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH
for all the help and love she has shared over the years in helping me become a better writer.
Contents
Cover (#u6f833e82-04a4-53a6-ae70-f6cf1a82af4a)
Title Page (#ub6e5dbf3-429d-5e2c-b29b-9472c58b1856)
Copyright (#ulink_9bebe0d5-2d68-5f07-8770-e8f0048693f8)
Dedication (#ulink_0a8fc8f5-8f21-5413-ae88-4b9f08eaa071)
Epigraph (#ulink_e4a27241-ca7a-581f-b1ae-56e515c84ac2)
Accused
Chapter 1 (#ulink_6a071f45-a1ab-5991-b630-2d5d05c47e9d)
Chapter 2 (#ulink_4ea66bd4-9877-56b8-9739-3e19af0f9dba)
Chapter 3 (#ulink_74fdc0fb-7751-551f-9f66-82699a520778)
Chapter 4 (#ulink_65d88513-c770-54ba-9aab-681df5489a43)
Chapter 5 (#ulink_a066b1fe-91a6-57f2-a44b-f4d331fbc1b6)
Chapter 6 (#ulink_8dc8892b-555a-521a-bab0-2b97b8f08bb6)
Chapter 7 (#ulink_9ee7ad10-cec3-5191-935b-15b3823250a7)
Chapter 8 (#ulink_121658a0-f87f-5009-b329-b6d1939f38d8)
Chapter 9 (#ulink_2c6dc367-d9e2-5b37-ad69-97c71685554b)
Truthsayers Guild
Chapter 10 (#ulink_b9be1cb1-1c5d-58d8-b62c-9fe5f13113dc)
Chapter 11 (#ulink_e31ba596-63d3-5dc3-bc20-1be04186fefa)
Chapter 12 (#ulink_cba42d3a-7dc7-5a72-a2da-60bb01efb7e5)
Chapter 13 (#ulink_e4eec983-69e2-531c-84cb-ba0bbe1d5de0)
Chapter 14 (#ulink_2254bab0-6325-584a-90cb-45a4fa106dd2)
Chapter 15 (#ulink_8d201910-9b06-5d2e-85e8-61035623f4b3)
Chapter 16 (#ulink_02493c61-56c0-5cd3-bd86-36933c682ee9)
Orblab 2
Chapter 17 (#ulink_72b03e76-2e32-5762-91af-e0fa721d988b)
Chapter 18 (#ulink_641edf91-c91b-5cb2-9951-de3448267f7d)
Chapter 19 (#ulink_78ce00ad-4307-5536-bf16-ae757019290d)
Chapter 20 (#ulink_7fb92944-5d5a-56a4-9929-4c1e6d914cdc)
Chapter 21 (#ulink_3cebfae3-a70b-53bb-a776-fac9af5b09cd)
Chapter 22 (#ulink_8306a05d-86bf-553a-b799-f328392bb5d6)
The Burden of Proof
Chapter 23 (#ulink_29a04a7a-27b8-598f-a5fd-52152731cd3e)
Chapter 24 (#ulink_a38d50f1-d064-54b7-a9e5-1c17cfee9661)
Chapter 25 (#ulink_998d96f5-7d53-5ede-8fbf-83a623c094fa)
Chapter 26 (#ulink_6e1e1c18-50da-5300-bb2d-d9b74bc90447)
Chapter 27 (#ulink_8c5d51a7-cd40-5b8a-8bc3-b016c6c84082)
Chapter 28 (#ulink_113c00e1-eb63-5be8-a9e6-eb92eee5b962)
Chapter 29 (#ulink_b78a28b2-70bd-5299-869a-1f75aa18c228)
Chapter 30 (#ulink_d6494955-ecec-5a23-aff5-41b55a5350a9)
Chapter 31 (#ulink_1d3dda19-bff8-58c3-a7d5-56165c1e94c0)
Chapter 32 (#ulink_fac45e77-a880-53bd-b558-2c9c5cb6ba86)
Chapter 33 (#ulink_9e06e8b7-2502-5fef-a354-f77ef3318e87)
Chapter 34 (#ulink_f06a6102-85b1-5a2c-b30b-93f8a949d5fd)
Chapter 35 (#ulink_590626a6-dc3b-565e-bcef-bbb51f0bfdf9)
Exiles
Chapter 36 (#ulink_3a580b1c-c2f4-5304-ab31-f04d13253aad)
Chapter 37 (#ulink_1b16a66a-f300-538d-bfdf-787ccb672fb6)
Chapter 38 (#ulink_945a18a4-d08e-550f-b033-a09365866787)
Chapter 39 (#ulink_aefe971b-845d-5a56-b058-4d82d001236a)
Chapter 40 (#ulink_fb99875c-e4e0-5faf-8029-1434e91939be)
Chapter 41 (#ulink_30d8e60b-7501-5fed-abc2-29c16ee2078d)
Chapter 42 (#ulink_9fb96dfe-06c9-5c69-8fb1-b9da7245c5b3)
Chapter 43 (#ulink_cba86741-8fa1-51ab-a2c3-44aba9dd7d2a)
Chapter 44 (#ulink_1c924c69-f180-51e4-b021-4bc3a9bfb32d)
Truth
Chapter 45 (#ulink_d0598b45-f705-5abc-b124-475a89f707aa)
Chapter 46 (#ulink_abd654af-ad71-51c4-88cc-54206b0267a9)
Chapter 47 (#ulink_af62f299-d762-5b95-a4a7-2cfcd487484d)
Chapter 48 (#ulink_8e78bbad-9832-59c2-8e0e-401d95224e58)
Chapter 49 (#ulink_fd08f69d-369b-54a4-b9a3-fe782d197024)
Chapter 50 (#ulink_17ed8a8f-c9f9-592d-8b0a-205eaac35e63)
Chapter 51 (#ulink_1e887f12-20a0-5c15-9ddd-93845d1f63a1)
Keep Reading (#uf784454a-eda4-5329-9d9c-e1e3012c97ba)
Acknowledgments (#ulink_8d619a69-09b6-5abb-a2d7-4212b6e1bc7f)
About the Author (#ulink_fcc9a6c7-18a4-5ce4-b8f9-d119e0c54941)
About the Publisher (#ulink_87eaf380-61c4-5f6d-a420-df3ffcf5aae9)
Epigraph (#ulink_962100f6-b370-5afd-9055-8315125f022a)
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
WALTER LIPPMANN
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.
OSCAR WILDE
ACCUSED (#ulink_1081e177-576a-5e0b-8507-ff02f29578a8)
CHAPTER (#ulink_5f496b00-8dc8-59fb-8fa9-0d7b5ae4ceba)
1 (#ulink_5f496b00-8dc8-59fb-8fa9-0d7b5ae4ceba)
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Outside the Truthsayers Guild, the crowd had already started to gather. Kalliana could hear the murmur of voices, feel the press of their excited thoughts even through the shielded walls of Guild Headquarters.
They were waiting.
She looked through the stained glass windows of her quarters on the third deck. She brushed pale fingers across the smooth, cool glass panes—brilliant shards of crimson, green, and blue epoxied into dull alloy tracks—as if to rub away the shadows of milling people anticipating the trial. But they would not leave, not until Kalliana had made her judgment.
The people of First Landing waited in the plaza for the Truthsayer to come out, to face the accused murderer, to read the guilt or innocence directly from his thoughts.
