My encounter with a 'professional assassin'

Some things can't be explained, just experienced

Inverting the argument until the truth falls out of its pockets. That’s what a reporter is supposed to do. Which is exactly what I found myself doing more than two decades ago, when my brother reported that he chatted with an Irish youngster who claimed to read people’s minds.

I didn’t believe it. But when my brother gave me instances of how the Irishman…