The Impossibles Author:Mark Phillips In two words, IM POSSIBLE. — First, late-model cars began driving themselves away--with nobody at the wheel... — Then, valuables began vanishing from locked rooms... — It was a new kind of crime. And Malone, the Government's expert on "impossibilities," was afraid it was a new kind of criminal...one who could disappear at will, walk through walls,... more » and thumb his nose at the police.