With a Strange Device
**The Brainstealers**

Richard Bransome worked in the government's most vital scientific laboratory, under the ultimate security. Nothing — living or inaminate — could crack the security barriers that guarded Bransome and his fellow workers. Nothing known to man...

But something was making key scientists give up their lives' careers, sometimes to just drift away, other times to die. Then Bransome began to remember a past he had completely forgotten — a past in which he had been a cold-blooded murderer! To discover the truth about himself, he set out on a solitary mission that would lead him against the most incredible enemy ever known to the people of Earth!
science fiction, British science fiction
Eric Frank Russell
English science fiction writer