The United States found itself in the middle of the most gigan- tic "snafu" in history. 

Nothing worked right, and no one could do anything without error. 

Even the Senate's computer-secretary machines were spewing out false information that was causing chaos.

Clearly this was a case for Kenneth J. Malone, FBI agent extraordinary. 

But what could Malone do or say when he realized that his chief in Washington was as subtly deranged as everyone else?

Malone guessed that someone, somewhere, was generating a strange mental static. 

But when he began to investigate, he found he'd teleported himself into a world that didn't exist!