The Mercy Men - aka A Man Obsessed Author:Alan E. Nourse The Mercy Men are medical mercenaries...desperate, derelict human beings who have sold their brains to science in the hope that if they survive with some degree of sanity, they can return to the normal world with a fortune...This, supposedly, has little to do with Jeff Meyer who has been obsessed for three years by a face and the knowledge ... more »that ... more »a stranger by the name of Paul Conroe, once, somehow, killed his father.
Jeff, who suffers from a strange, painful blank space in his memory knows that there is a tie-up and is determined to catch the illusive Conroe and question him. But Conroe disappears again, this time into the guarded and secretive depths of the Medical Center and Jeff follows pretending to be a candidate as Mercy Man.
It's all very ingenious and intricate suspense as Jeff Slowly learns the truth about his father and his own, unsuspected nature. A real brain twister..