LW - ”Deception Genre” What Books are like Project Lawful? by Double

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I just finished Project Lawful, a really long, really weird book by Eliezer Yudkowsky.
The book's protagonist is a knowledgable and perceptive target. A conspiracy forms around the target to learn from him while keeping him from finding out that helping them is not in the target's best interests. The book is written from the perspective of both the target and the conspiracists. The target notices inconsistencies and performs experiments to test his false reality while also acting in the fabricated reality according to his interests.
The conspiracists frantically try to keep the target from catching them or building enough evidence against them that he concludes they have been lying.
This is a description of (part of) the plot of Project Lawful. But this could be the description of an entire genre! If the genre doesn't already have a name, it could be the "Deception Genre."
Another work in this category would be The Truman Show, which fits the deception and the target's escape within a