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This darkly wry new work from Nicholson (The City Under the Skin) opens with a man working with a shadowy, unspecified organization preparing volunteers for the eventuality of torture. What unfolds is not a thriller (despite continuing overtones) but a surprisingly engrossing meditation on human limitation and life's ultimate opacity. Surprisingly, because Joe, the narrator, a psychotherapist dragged into his job...Log In or Sign Up to Read More