"...Someone, probably at a government military-sciences lab, erased his conscious memories; all he knew was that going to Mars meant something special to him, and so did being a secret agent. They couldn't erase that; it's not a memory but a desire, undoubtedly the same one that motivated him to volunteer for the assignment in the first place."引自第6页
Quail said,"I remember everything,miss. My letter to Rekal, Incorporate, which started this whole business off. I remember my arrival here, my visit with Mr. McClane. Then the two lab technicians taking me in tow and administering a drug to put me out."引自第8页
“We have a tela-transmitter wired within your skull; it keeps us constantly informed.”
A telepathic transmitter; use of a living plasma that had been discovered on Luna. ... ...
..."I'm still picking up your mentational processes by way of your cephalic transmitter."引自第9页
"On Mars," Quail said hoarsely,"I killed a man. After getting past 15 bodyguards. Some armed with sneaky-pete guns, the way you are." He had been trained, by Interplan, over a 5 year period to be an assassin. A professional killer.引自第10页
Your fantasy is this: you are 9 years old, walking alone down a rustic lane. An unfamiliar variety of space vessel from another star system lands directly in front of you...引自第13页