A young writer is contacted by notorious con man and corporate criminal Siegfried Heidl, who proposes a deal: $10,000 to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks. He accepts, but begins to fear that he is being corrupted . . . Compelling, comic and chilling, this is a haunting journey into the heart of our age. From the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel "The Narrow Road to the Deep North".