There he is thrown into a dark cellar with a timid petty crook named Lefty Conners. Discerning that their hideout has been discovered and may be subject to a police raid, the men move their operation to a house on Patroon Place in the Mount Union section of the city, picking up a stray kitten that Hoyt begins to train telepathically.Īs he returns to the house from a local drug store, Blake is kidnapped by gangsters working for Pranj and taken to Pranj's hideout. They are hunting a criminal, Kmoat Vo Pranj, who may have been the burglar Blake semi-encountered. Kittson explains to him that he and the others are agents from an alternate Earth, one more advanced technologically and psychically than is Blake's Earth. When he regains consciousness he tells Kittson and the others what happened. At the same time he is subjected to a telepathic assault that knocks him out.
The next day, alone in the apartment, Blake hears someone trying to break in. There he meets the other members of Kittson's team, Jason Saxton, Stan Erskine, and Hoyt. The man he rescued, Mark Kittson, arranges for him to disappear into an organization that occupies a hidden apartment. Goaded by one of the forebodings that have punctuated his life, he rescues a man from a kidnapper and then discovers that the kidnapper's friends have taken an unhealthy interest in him. In the fall of 1955, in New York City, as the snow begins to fall, Blake Walker has come from Ohio to attend college.
The Crossroads of Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Andre Norton, first published in 1956 by Ace Books as one of their double novels.
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