This is an enjoyable creepy story, if a bit far fetched. John Croxley, an ordinary guy, married and has a dull job is used by the aliens to kill Straker. Croxley has latent ESP powers, always has since childhood, using his gift to guess the contents of the other children's sandwiches. Now years later his powers are increasing to the point of causing him mental distress. The Aliens are stimulating this for a reason. They crash a craft into Croxley's house killing his wife, it is not stated whether an Alien was in the craft and therefore on a suicide mission, the craft explodes on impact. Colonel Foster is hospitalised as a result of flying debris from the explosion and Croxley visits the hospital disguised as a doctor, and using ESP reads Foster's mind thereby learning all of SHADO's secrets. Croxley then sends this info to Straker and details of a meeting place as a lure .
By the time Straker and Croxley meet the aliens have distorted Croxley's mind to convince him Straker is responsible for his wife's death and given him the ESP power to kill!!
By the time Straker and Croxley meet the aliens have distorted Croxley's mind to convince him Straker is responsible for his wife's death and given him the ESP power to kill!!
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