Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball

by Scott Spencer

Book Overview

Paul Galambos is an ordinary professor of psychology, struggling to glean any degree of satisfaction or success from his family and his careerâ??until one day he is recruited by a top-secret... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395171253
• ISBN13: 9780395171257
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

From inside flap.

Paul Galambos, professor of experimental psychology, is a frustrated, power-hungry man. That's why he answers a crytic magazine ad for specialists in his field and finds himself abducted into the well-paid employ of NESTER...New England Sensory Testing and Engineering Research. In the manufactured environment of the vast cream-colored compound, Paul tests human subjects manipulating them through the latest technical advances in brain control. Instoxicated by the possibilities at NESTER, Paul eagerly sheds every vestige of his former life to become a willing prisoner, dedicating himself to a series of profoundly immoral experiments. His position is a dream come true. His superior, Mr. Worthington, goads him on with incentives...spying missions, exclusive experiments on sexual behavior, promises of still more power. How does it all turn into comic frenzy? Are his colleagues spies or madmen? Who is the mysterious Mr. Worthington? And what, really is NESTER? This is a wry, often wild, often dark comedy taking as its theme some of the most fearful concerns of our time. It introduces a novelist with a funny, frightening, and highly original angle of vision. 178 pages.

Very odd, but rather interesting

Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball deals with the issue of corporate control over the population in a big-brother type environment. The author creates a main character and narrator, Paul, who is, while relatable as a person, uniquely perceptive to his surroundings. Though slow moving for an escape story, the novel keeps the reader's attention up to the end. Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good story with an unconventional, romance-free plot.