Singleton

Singleton is a newly recruited Psych Corps agent who is tasked with tracking down violent failed enfold Rake and the recent enfold Meg whom he has kidnapped. Singleton himself is also a recent enfold who has had all of his memories of his time as a soldier in Vietnam erased by the government. He is an uncertain, nervous person with a tendency to daydream during his frequent case briefings by his supervising officer Klein. Because his memories have been enfolded, he lacks a concrete sense of self, and his quest to understand what he has forgotten is one of the primary narrative arcs of the novel.

At the novel’s start, Singleton has just begun dating his fellow Psych Corps agent Wendy. While their affair is at first illicit, as it is against Psych Corps protocol to date other agents, Singleton eventually realizes that they have been set...