Oblivion

Oblivion (2005) by Peter Abrahams. Interesting detective fiction in which the private eye is stricken with brain cancer when he's right on the cusp of solving a mystery. The treatment costs him a couple of weeks in the hospital and nearly all of his memory. Nick Petrov is his name. Before his illness he is Petrov, a calculating thinker who unravels problems with brain power and muscle when needed. After his hospital stay he becomes Nick, his body wasted, with little to go on but intuition and a few leftover clues. His search for a lost girl named Amanda turns out to have intriguing links to a serial-killer case he solved years before. Grade: B