Jesse Ball

Witnessing the murder of a man who warns him of a conspiracy led by a man known as 'Samedi,' James Sim, a mnemonist who possesses a photographic memory, is abducted and taken to a country mansion that houses a sanatorium dedicated to curing chronic liars, where James seeks to uncover the mystery of Samedi while learning the customs of the asylum. A first novel. Original. 30,000 first printing.