Mindbender: From Harlem With Love

In 1959, a stolen film reel of renowned Russian psychic Nina Kulagina demonstrating her abilities was smuggled from the Kremlin to Washington, setting in motion not an arms race, not a space race, but a race to acquire psychic spies to engage in espionage behind the Iron Curtain. In 1961, during the hottest days of the Cold War and at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, John, a young African American, came to the attention of the CIA for his remarkable ability to remote view (mentally perceive what a person is seeing or thinking).
He was broken out of a hellish prison in the Deep South in the dead of night. And John has one more gift: the ability to bend the will of a targeted subject. After being indoctrinated into the art of spycraft, John, in his freshman outing, becomes embroiled in a deadly affair in Los Angeles involving the Mafia, President John F. Kennedy, and starlet Marilyn Monroe. He is then whisked to Istanbul, where John is tasked with eclipsing (assassinating) scientist Pyotr Liukin, who is building nukes for Castro in Cuba.
However, John runs afoul of Soviet bombshell remote viewer Ursula Sobieski, a woman with her own agenda, as well as a troika of psychic spies from rival superpowers who have united to hunt him down and kill him.