The Syndrome

the long version

A promising research fellow for a venerable think-tank in Zurich has just filed his last report, only to become the centerpiece of a grisly and sinister experiment... A seductive young woman named Nico travels to Florida and, from her hotel-room window, assassinates an old man in a wheelchair as he basks in the late afternoon sun... Jeff Duran, a psychologist who helps patients confront and dispel past trauma through hypnosis, is himself a basket of neuroses, suffering panic attacks and agoraphobia... Everything spirals out of control when Nico commits suicide and Duran is forced to confront his past. Or is it his past? Is he really Jeff Duran? Was there ever a Jeff Duran? A relentlessly paced thriller in which nothing is what it seems, no one can be trusted, and nothing is secure--especially one's own memories.