"Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks he's finally caught a break when he's offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried "Ziggy" Heidl, the notorious con man and corporate criminal. Ziggy is about to go to trial for defrauding banks for $700 million; they have six weeks to write the book. But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running "business concerns"--which Kif begins to suspect may involve murder. And yet Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline nears, Kif becomes unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting him--his life, his future, and perhaps truth itself. By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting story of what happens when freedom is traded for a false idea of progress."--Page [4] of cover.