Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals, unfriendly aliens, and nefarious members of all species. But when a danger to the entire Hub civilization brought these two together, the galaxy would never be the same!

James H. Schmitz was a popular science fiction writer of the 1960s. Most of his work was originally published in science fiction magazines and later anthologized or expanded into novels. Schmitz is probably best known for his novel The Witches of Karres.

This Baen Books collection contains short stories that were published in The Telzey Toy anthology in 1971. The title story, entitled "Ti's Toys" in this collection, finds Telzey Amberdon with a double. Both the original Telzey and the duplicate are ensnared by an evil industrialist. In the short story "Compulsion," Telzey Amberdon meets Trigger Argee.

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-- from the Baen Free Library