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The keys to both cases lie in illusions-those people create about themselves and those they perceive in others. Additional similarities also emerge, leading Nameless to a series of startling revelations and ultimately to the two most difficult decisions of his career. Both a fair-play detective story and a novel of psychological and moral complexity, Illusions is another triumph for the sleuth praised by the Chicago Sun-Times as the thinking person's detective. 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