An Anonymous Condition

Someone is trying to kill the archivist Quentin Smith. He can not really be sure for Quentin can't remember anything since shortly before moving to an obscure coastal college town to begin his somber work in the university library.

An episodic amnesiac who has no past Quentin cannot recall much more than brief instances of his existence before becoming the university archivist. It has led to a belief that he probably was once CIA or a member of another clandestine intelligence organization. ...