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ESPionage: Regime Change: A Psychic CIA Novel

by Tom Easton (Author), Frank Wu (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars (31)
When the Russians start an undeclared war to bring down the West with assassinations and disinformation attacks, the CIA reactivates a psychic agent from its old Project Stargate to fight off the attacks. Together with agents who once worked for Russia, France, and Mexico—plus a couple of youngsters—he brings the secret war to a blazing conclusion!

Easton and Wu’s novel is a great example of the subgenre I call “sci-spy,” the fusion of present-day science fiction and modern spy adventure, but it’s more than that. It’s also about an exotic form of espionage that (if certain sources are to be believed) is more actual than you might expect. This is fiction, yes, but it’s rooted in some very strange and (possibly) very real things. — Allen Steele

A surreal mix of Jon Ronson’s The Men Who Stare at Goats, Peter Benchley’s Q Clearance, Frank Wu’s knack for the surreal and Tom Easton’s touch for weird science, ESPionage: Regime Change is a DC thriller unlike any other. -- Analog

A sublime, diverting hybrid-genre tale with chic supernatural powers and series potential. — Kirkus Reviews


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Tom Easton has been publishing science fiction and fantasy since the 1970s and spent 30 years as Analog's book columnist. His latest nonfiction book is Destinies: Issues to Shape Our Future (B Cubed Press, 2020).

Frank Wu is a Hugo-winning artist and Analog favorite writer. He is also a biotech patent agent and had a small role in developing vaccines and tests for COVID-19.
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A sublime, diverting hybrid-genre tale with chic supernatural powers and series potential. -- Kirkus
Easton and Wu make sure to have psionics make sense within the setting and history of the novel, with small acts of psychic warfare having been involved during the Cold War and War on Terror, and we get to see how having the odd telepath running around would impact life everywhere from petty crimes to international diplomacy. It's something I look forward to seeing them build upon as the series moves forward as well, as they've been terribly clever about it so far.
A surreal mix of Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats, Peter Benchley's Q Clearance, Frank Wu's knack for the surreal and Tom Easton's touch for weird science, ESPionage: Regime Change is a DC thriller unlike any other. -- Analog, January-February 2024

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    I’ve written short stories, novels, textbooks, poetry, and magazine articles for half a century. I spent thirty years as the book columnist for the science fiction magazine Analog. With a doctorate in theoretical biology, I also spent more than thirty years as a college professor.

    And it’s all of a piece. I started reading science fiction in 1957. The appeal to a callow thirteen-year-old was downright traditional, for that was about the age when an awful lot of science fiction fans and writers got hooked. But there was something more in my case. Dad was a biologist, Mom a nurse, so science was in the family. I turned thirteen in 1957, the year of Sputnik. The newspapers were full of Rockets! Satellites! Space! Very soon, we had Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. Wernher von Braun and Willy Ley were beating the drums for space stations and moon bases.

    I was ready to discover Astounding (now Analog), with covers that looked (some of the time) just like Time, Look, Life, and other magazines of the time. The stories pushed the headlines into the future, and the stories, the fact articles, and even John W. Campbell, Jr.'s editorials (despite Campbell's tendency to chase some ideas into silliness) got me used to thinking about how science and technology interacted with society. Science was important because it meant understanding the universe. Technology meant using that understanding to do cool things. Both could generate exciting stories. But the real message was that science and technology were important precisely because of how they affected people, both as individuals and en masse, as a society, not always in obvious ways (electricity changed the rhythm of life because people could stay up later!). A secondary message—blame Campbell's editorials for this one!—was that in order to deal intelligently with issues of science, technology, and society, one must recognize that people disagree about facts, their meaning, and what to do about them, and one must think outside the box (even at the risk of being thought a bit nuts by people who don't even understand that there is a box).

    In due time, I earned a doctorate in Theoretical Biology from the University of Chicago. When I started writing in the seventies, it seemed very natural to write science fiction, some of which dealt with those interactions of science, technology, and society. But only a very small number of people can actually make a living writing science fiction these days. When that penetrated, I became a college professor, teaching biology, including environmental science and ecology, as well as other science courses. It was only a part-time gig at first, while I continued to try to make writing generate a full-time income. In due time, the college asked me to develop a course on philosophy and methods of science, which eventually became a science, technology, and society (STS) course. Starting from my course materials, I edited an issues anthology (Taking Sides: Controversial Issues in Science, Technology and Society, McGraw-Hill, now in its 14th edition) and developed an anthology of stories on STS themes (Gedanken Fictions, Wildside, 2000). A few of the nineteen issues in the Taking Sides book dealt with the environment. It seemed a natural progression when the publisher asked me to take over Taking Sides: Controversial Environmental Issues (now in its 17th edition; I’m working on the 18th), a somewhat more focused STS book.

    The shaping influence of Campbell's Astounding is still there. Science and technology and their intersection with society are important. Thinking about them is fun. Taking different angles on them (getting outside the box) is crucial. My personal approach has shifted from just reading (Hey! I was just a kid when I started!) to writing stories and articles to doing textbooks. I've shifted my focus, but the same themes are there. They are also in the essays that make up this volume.

    My science fiction stories on how genetic engineering may affect the future are collected in the e-book The GMO Future. You can find others in Love Stories and UFOs.

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    I started publishing in 1971, doing science short stories and novels, anthologies, textbooks, and nonfiction articles and books. I retired in 2014 from my position as Professor of Science at Thomas College in Waterville, ME. Since then I've done a few more anthologies and short stories.

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  • RicBret
    5 out of 5 stars
    Telepaths and Spycraft, you're never too old...
    Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2023
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    ESPionage, just capitalize the first three letters. It's amazing nobody had come up with that name before. It's right there in front of you. But there you have it: "ESPionage: Regime Change: A Psychic CIA Novel. So we're looking at what, at least I hope, will be the first in a series built around the premise of psychic specialists working in spycraft.

    Knowing I would review this book, I kept short notes to remind me of some of what delighted me as I read. I'd start off with cryptography and codes, which you get a pleasant crash course in with some lovely examples. To be sure, you could write your own coded messages after one particular chapter. Book bonus! Anyway, looking back over those notes I decided they stood on their own as teasers for why you might enjoy reading it as well. So let's start with the raw notes, in a somewhat scrambled order.

    Spy craft, assassinations of heads of state and misinformation campaigns

    A crash course in codes

    Old fashioned because... they're old?

    Obsolesce of the fantastic

    Ratatouille (the 2007 Disney film) and tinfoil hats

    Mystery women and men

    Telepaths in love

    Getting older and falling in love

    Running a restaurant

    Defending a restaurant from attack

    Telepathy, telekinesis, and foreknowledge

    Of course there were more. I'm omitting some obscure notes that would just be confusing without spoileresque context. But my notes aside this book surely delivers in fun and unexpected ways. This is a story of old retired spies brought back in from the cold, long after their cold war. Think George Smiley and Gil the Arm, with a bit of Arsenic and Old Lace. OK, not spot on, but I'm hoping you will get the sense that this is a fairly unique novel that does not lend itself to direct comparisons. And because of that, Easton and Wu have artfully delivered a delight.

    Let's hope we see more tales from the Psychic CIA.

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  • L. Pierce
    5 out of 5 stars
    I might have nightmares about this story
    Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2025
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    I really liked this story. It was emotional and compelling. The main characters are in their 70’s. That alone makes it a different story. I liked both the male and female main characters.

    I will state the authors discuss severely abused children and one of them dies. I almost stopped reading there. The main characters were furious about that and went after the bad guys. I absolutely had to find out if they got them.

    I highly recommend this book. It is interesting and compelling. It is definitely out of the ordinary. I think I will read something lighter before I go on to book 2 though.

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  • Martin Terman
    5 out of 5 stars
    Well done mixture of spycraft and science fiction
    Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
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    This book is for fans of esper powers, especially those who like their science fiction hard, and it is also for fans of cryptography, as there are sample ciphers in the book for the reader. A well done plot which builds on top of contemporary modern day politics in a plausible fashion.

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  • Kate
    5 out of 5 stars
    An original story with spooky ties to contemporary international and culture wars dysfunction.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2023
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    ESPionage: Regime Change at times seems almost synced with contemporary news cycles which made for an interesting story. I enjoyed the character development, plot, and pacing. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.

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  • Thogek
    3 out of 5 stars
    Kinda fun, a little clumsy
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024
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    I like ESPionage: Regime Change's concept: older long-retired telepaths (and other rare abilities) drawn back into deadly national espionage scenarios, and how that might realistically work.

    Unfortunately, for me at least, the writing had a number of issues that felt like disruptive speed bumps along the way. Many times I completely lost track of who was where in a scene and who was speaking what parts of dialog (and I backed up to try to reorient myself, not always successfully) due to a frequent lack of cues. And a few times the who-was-where just didn't make sense, including one case of someone entering a building, crossing a lobby, climbing four flights of stairs and approaching a door in the time it took for one character to speak one short sentence. Just lots of clumsy writing moments that too-frequently bumped me out of the story as I backed up to figure out what I'd missed.

    The story, overall, was still a mostly fun read, albeit more for the ideas behind what was happening than for the bumpy storytelling. And I did like the fair portrayal of older (70+) protagonists. However, while the end (and the "a psychic CIA novel" subtitle) clearly sets up for more story to come, I'm just not feeling the pull of interest to read them when they do.

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  • Shirley Ann-Holland Kingery
    4 out of 5 stars
    A Fast Paced Psychic Action Thriller!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
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    ESPionage: Regime Change (A Psychic CIA Novel) is a fast-paced, edge-of-your seat, psychic action thriller. It is the first in a psychic CIA series. World leaders are being mysteriously assassinated around the globe, succumbing to heart attacks out of the blue, or spontaneously bursting into flames.

    Enter a group of senior citizen psychics, all of whom used to work for their various governments. The main protagonist of the book is Gabriel, a 74 year old who helps run and is co-owner of Chez Bernie, a top notch French restaurant in Washington D.C.). His partner is another retired government agent psychic from France, Bernarde. Gabriel used to be a psychic agent doing work for the CIA. His path now crosses with an Armenian woman from Russia, another former psychic agent, Katrinka. And suddenly they are all thrust into employment again, this time with the CIA, as they work against time trying to track down a group of terrorists of unknown origin who are targeting the U.S. President and Vice President, after having already assassinated several world leaders.

    Are these senior citizens up to the task of mixing it up with high tech international killers, some of whom also seem to have "powers"? Along with a couple of youngsters that join up with them, they are sure going to give it a try! They are faced with untold dangers and violence at every twist and turn. The political turmoil is sadly too close to our chaotic reality, the names and descriptions of fictional political parties all too easy to envision as a reality in the very near future.

    A romantic relationship is brewing as well for Gabriel and Katrinka. Will they be able to enjoy some welll-deserved late-life happiness together?

    The stakes are high all the way around. The writing is pretty good. The pacing and intense action really keep you riveted. The character development is excellent. I thought it could do with a touch more editing, but all in all it's quite an enjoyable read and I would recommend it for anyone liking psychic action stories.

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  • Alex Berman
    5 out of 5 stars
    Loved This Book
    Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2023
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    Couldn’t put it down. Finished in a single weekend. Has elements of the classic spy novel in a science fiction setting. For me, the best of both worlds. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !

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  • Tom Easton
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    Smoke the Truthers!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2023
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    Sure, I'm one of the authors. But it's still a great book, all about the Russian threat to the free world and their wicked allies in a major political party.

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