
Six weeks to write for your life In this blistering story of a ghostwriter haunted by his demonic subject the Man Booker Prize winner turns to lies crime & literature with devastating effect A young & penniless writer Kif Kehlmann is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man & corporate criminal Siegfried Heidl About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of 700 million Heidl proposes a deal 10000 for Kehlmann to ghostwrite his memoir in six weeks Kehlmann accepts but begins to fear that he is being corrupted by Heidl As the deadline draws closer he becomes ever more unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir or if Heidl is rewriting him&8213;his life his future Everything that was certain grows uncertain as he begins to wonder who is Siegfried Heidl&8213;and who is Kif Kehlmann? By turns compelling comic & chilling First Person is a haunting journey into the heart of our age