In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens.

In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies.

In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers.

And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now. One thing, he told himself, was absolutely certain: it was going to be terrible. It always was.

Brain Twister is the first in a series including The Impossibles and Supermind written by the duo of Laurence Mark Janifer and Randall Philip Garrett under the pseudonym Mark Phillips.

Also known as That Sweet Little Old Lady