A young journalist on the poverty line, struggling to write her second book after a previous bestseller, researches he events surrounding a flight whose passengers were struck down with amnesia. She follows the trail to a small village in Mexico and then on to China, accompanied by a CIA agent and chased by a pair of killers who cannot be killed, hunting for a man called Henry Lyme, who has a terrible story to tell.

A distillation of military-industrial psychic paranoia, where The men Who Stare At Goats were actually able to manipulate the goats psychically and drafted into a secret agency and trained and sent on missions and used for propaganda and psy-ops, Mind Mgmt is a brilliant, chilling, labyrinthine thriller of a secret world of psychic warfare and catastrophe. With an introduction by Damon Lindelof, it's east to see the attraction for someone with an eye to adapting it for the small screen, packed as it is with mind-bending ideas, sinister characters, weird mysteries and puzzles, and a twisting plot that jumps around in time and space. Gorgeous hardback edition from Dark Horse, too.