Matt Price is gifted with incredible psychic powers when his mother is involved in a car crash involving high voltage electric wire while she is pregnant with him. At his senior prom he is approached by a government agent who is a telepath and Matt is hired to work undercover. Nicknamed "Brain Boy," his first assignment is to travel to Xochtan, a small South American country; with Hillary Gomez, a famed classical composer, who had escaped from from Xochtan as a youth. Matt must protect Gomez and himself from Ricorta, the telepath of the dictator General Droz.; Examples of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnotism, and percognition.; The case of John Park, who related experiences happening on whaling ships half a world away when he was hypnotized by William Reed in 1850.; Facts about dolphins and questions about types of animal behavour.