Who controls human minds controls the world—and the young scientist Ludwig Stinner perfectly understands that. He’s the inventor of a marvelous device that can transmit thoughts over distance, like radio waves. Now, the inventor can easily obtain everything he once dared not even dream of—wealth, power, and even the heart of his beloved girl, Elsa.
Police, the army, and intelligence services are powerless against him. And the only one capable of standing up to him is the Moscow physicist Kachinsky, who is also working on the problem of the effects of radio waves on the human brain.
The war between two geniuses begins…
Belyaev’s novel was first published in 1926, but even today it reads like a wonderful, fast-paced, gripping work full of sharp, biting humor.