Blindfold

Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truthsayers. Parentless, 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, and Beyond appeal.

Falsely accused of murder, Troy Boren trusts the young Truthsayer Kalliana . . . until, impossibly, she convicts him. Still shaken from a previous reading, Kalliana doesn't realize her power is fading. But soon the evidence becomes impossible to ignore. The Truthsayers' Veritas has been diluted and someone in the colony is selling smuggled telepathy. Justice isn't blind -- it's been blinded.

From an immortal's orbital prison to the buried secrets of a regal fortress, Kalliana and Troy seek the conspiracy that threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth justice, Atlas will certainly fall . . .

"Anderson has a strong sense of dialog and character, and makes the world he's writing about come to life and mean something to you."

-- Other Realms

"Kevin J. Anderson professed literary ambition is to write books as complicated as Frank Herbert and his latest novel BLINDFOLD is a good step toward achieving his goal . . . Anderson captures the tumult and the heady excitement of the tensions of a new society and, ultimately, I wouldn't be surprised if the future's history of deep space exploration reads like an Anderson book."

--Andrew Asch

Also available as an e-book.

Blindfold

by Kevin J. Anderson