The Ninth Configuration | Characters
The central character is of course Kane: The book begins with his arrival at Camp 18 and ends (except for the final chapter) with his passing. He is introduced to the inmates as a psychiatrist, Colonel Hudson Stephen Kane, "Coming to find out if you're really psycho!" Physically compelling but with sadness in his eyes, Kane hides a secret that comes out, in some detail, close to the end of the book. Kane is actually not a bad psychiatrist, in one scene taking a dangerous hammer away from a mental patient by a combination of physical strength and a clever appeal to the man's delusional...
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