A FLICKERING FLAME is a compelling tale about Jeffrey Shulman a brilliant pathological liar an emotionally scarred man with a rare condition named by psychiatrists as Pseudologia fantastica. It is an engrossing chronicle of his life from his infancy when he was abused to when he becomes a convincing impostor to a time when his wife attempts to murder him with a .357 magnum aimed at his chest and his subsequent struggle to survive and get custody of his children.