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* In the Roy Johansen novel ''Beyond Belief'', Joe Bailey confronts murderer {{spoiler|Stuart Dunning}} and accuses him of the murder of Robert Nelson, which he committed in a manner that made it appear telekinetic in nature. {{spoiler|Dunning}} declares "If I had telekninetic powers, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Subverted in that he does indeed want to kill Bailey, but is using this to deny the original murder.
* In the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''Duty Calls'', the [[Big Bad]] [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine|invites Cain to a meal]] and tells him not to worry about poison; if he was to be killed, it would have been done already with gunfire.
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* In the [[Dale Brown]] novel ''Shadows of Steel'', a back channel special envoy between the Iranians and the US is told that the President is still in control of the situation, for if he wasn't, overt military action would have been taken already.
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