Number Nine: Or, The Mindsweepers is a 1951 comedy novel by the British writer A.P.

It was written as a parody of the Civil Service selection board and portrays several recruits attending a course at an assessment centre.

[1] They gather at the ancestral home of an aristocratic admiral, much to his dismay.

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