Book Identification Help!

[andrewducker]

It starts with an assassin, who (IIRC) has no memories before a certain point. It ends with a battle of wits on a solar mining platform slowly descending towards the sun and certain death. There's bits of talk about circular theories of society, a bit of time travel, and the main character learns to use his sense in reverse (projecting images from his eyes, for instance).

Anyone ID this? The name is on the tip of my tongue, but I can't quite place it.

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[andrewducker]

Sadly not - Golden Age does have the solar platform bit, but it's not the book I'm looking for, which dates from the 70s (at least, if not earlier).

I keep getting "Charles" as the first name of the author, but I'm not actually sure. TBH, if anyone would get it I figured it would be you :->