Title: Samedi the deafness
Description: One morning in the park James Sim discovers a man, crumpled on the ground, stabbed in the chest.  In the man's last breath, he whispers his confession: Samedi.  What follows is a spellbinding game of cat and mouse as James is abducted, brought to an asylum, and seduced by a woman in yellow.  Who is lying?  What is Samedi?  And what will happen on the seventh day?From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Mnemonics, Literature, Psychological games, Terrorists, Sanatoriums, Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general