The Man I Never Was

The source of this story is a cache of seven notebooks found at a remote site in the northwest high desert by a geology student. The anonymous author-the lack of attribution crucial-is finally discovered to be an autistic genius who many years earlier disappears.

The student's mentor, upon retirement, seeks the source of the find and puts together

this book. Essentially the notebooks are the diary of the last member of a family whose handed-down wealth allows him to circle the country for e...