Games of Chance: The Interviewer / The Investigator

"Thomas Hinde's sharply focused portrayals of two men. The first novella, The Interviewer, has as its central character a cynical journalist who, in his merciless hunt for the truth behind a news story, exposes his own failures. In the second part ..., The Investigator is a paranoiac, working for the manufacturer of children's games, and declining into outright madness. Together these two stories state and comment on the problems of reality and unreality which bedevil humanity."