demolished man

The Man With No Face At a time when crime is virtually impossible, one man sets out to do what has not occurred in 79 years and get away with it. In the classic science fiction novel The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester, one man is about to change everything. Ben Reich is that man. He is haunted by nightmares of the man with no face, and after murdering his business rival, the nightmares become even …

…for monetary gain but for personal reasons, to try and kill the nightmare. Once he is caught, Reich ended up facing Demolition, and during this time he had a vision with the man with no face. This time there was a face, actually two faces. One was his, the other D’Courtney’s. At this time, Reich realizes that they are of one blood and figures out why his nightmarish pursuer never had a face.