Jacob Blunt is a rich, attractive, young Manhattanite who is personally acquainted with several leprechauns. He desperately hopes that he is mad, and that his new 'friends' are hallucinations. At least that would be an explanation. Seeking help, he enters the offices of Dr George Matthews, a distinguished psychiatrist, but his bizarre yet strangely sane confession intrigues the doctor.Dr Matthews' professional curiosity carries him one step too far. Plunged into a cataclysmic and surreal whirlpool of intimidation and murder, he loses every last vestige of normality, and has to fight to stay alive long enough to identify his persecutor.This astonishing novel - which was Bardin's first when published in 1947 - combines a completely compelling murder mystery plot with a unique voyage into madness and the fragile nature of identity itself.
