Kif Kehlmann, a young, penniless writer, thinks heโs finally caught a break when heโs offered $10,000 to ghostwrite the memoir of Siegfried โZiggyโ 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.
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But Ziggy swiftly proves almost impossible to work with: evasive, contradictory, and easily distracted by his still-running โbusiness concernsโโwhich Kif worries may involve hiring hitmen from their shared office. Worse, Kif finds himself being pulled into an odd, hypnotic, and ever-closer orbit of all things Ziggy. As the deadline draws near, Kif becomes increasingly unsure if he is ghostwriting a memoir, or if Ziggy is rewriting himโhis life, his future, and the very nature of the truth.
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By turns comic, compelling, and finally chilling, First Person is a haunting look at an age where fact is indistinguishable from fiction, and freedom is traded for a false idea of progress.
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