Supermind by Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer

“We don’t know what the hell it is,” said Andrew J. Burris, Director of the FBI. He threw his hands in the air and looked baffled and confused.

Kenneth J. Malone tried to appear sympathetic. “What what is?” he asked.

Burris frowned and drummed his fingers on his big desk. “Malone,” he said, “make sense. And don’t stutter.”