Catspaw (Cat #2) – Joan D. Vinge Free Audiobook

Written by Joan D. Vinge
Read by Bruce Huntey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps

Cat is a psion–a telepathic half-breed–and a survivor. A street punk and petty felon, a rebel and a reluctant spy, he has been a victim of experiences that would have driven a less resilient person insane. Unfortunately, he has paid a high price for survival: his psi powers are burnt out, a loss he carries like an unhealed wound.

Once kidnapped by the galactic combine Centaury Transport, Cat will be forced to become the bodyguard of a most unlikely and unwilling client: Lady Elnear taMing. Activist, politico, and part of the family that owns Centaury, she opposes a bill to deregulate a mind-control drug that could earn Centaury billions, while perhaps destroying the lives of millions of people. Someone is trying to kill her. And despite her wishes, she needs the kind of protection that only a telepath can give.

But Cat is a streetwise outcast from a far planet and cannot hope to save Lady Elnear without becoming a part of the seductive, treacherous world of high finance and power politics in which she lives. From the malevolent Charon taMing and the fanatical religious leader Stryger to the silver-skinned, sensuous symbplayer Argentyne and the cyber-augmented security chief Braeclee, Cat must explore the minds and motives of eath taMing and those whose lives are caught in their orbit. Unraveling the mystery through a maze of false leads and electronic enigmas, discovering secrets that range from the sensually delightful to the excruciatingly painful, Cat will follow the elusive trail of the execution order until it leads him to a place from which no living being has ever returned. And then, to shatter the prism of lies, the young psion must become bait, a catspaw–and expose himself to an utterly horrifying atrocity that could cost Cat his future… his sanity… and most likely, his life.