What if there were a clandestine organization that extended market analysis to its ultimate possibilities? Like using real people as guinea pigs?… Scott Spencer fancies that such a scientific purgatory might resemble New England Sensory and Testing Research—NESTOR…. To NESTOR comes a malcontent experimental psychologist, agreeable to living beyond freedom and dignity. Through his reactions to the techniques of what he finally decides is "a claque of satans," the author develops a light-fingered satire of technology. "Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball" belongs in the same league with Shepherd Mead's "The Big Ball of Wax."