The Memorist
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The Memorist
M.J. Rose
As a child, Meer Logan was haunted by "the dreads", frozen memories filled with elusive music. Now the hand of the past has reached out again. She receives an anonymous envelope containing a childhood drawing of an elaborate box that Meer recognises, along with an auction catalogue that identifies the box as an eighteenth–century gaming box.
Determined to unlock the mystery of who she once was, Meer travels to Vienna to find the box. With each step, she comes closer to remembering the connections between a clandestine reincarnationist society and to David Yalom, a journalist who knows all too well how the past affects the future.
David is known internationally for his coverage of the Middle East; terrorism is more than a story for him – it's a reality that cost him his family. He's watched the failure of every solution promised by security experts around the world. Now, in a concert hall in Vienna, he plans to force the world to understand the cost of those failures in a single act. Because those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it...
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Near the start of Rose's fascinating follow-up to The Reincarnationist (2007), Meer Logan visits the Manhattan office of Malachai Samuels, the erudite head of a reincarnation foundation. When Malachai shows her an auction catalogue photo of a gaming box once owned by a friend of Ludwig van Beethoven, the photo closely resembles a sketch Meer made as a child based on what Meer wishes were false memories. Malachai believes Meer has been haunted by past-life memories, in particular those of Margaux Neidermier, whose husband in 1814 asked Beethoven to decipher a song inscribed on an ancient flute. The box turns out to contain a Beethoven letter suggesting the composer didn't destroy the "memory flute" as he claimed to have done at the time. When the box is stolen soon after Meer examines it, she heads to Vienna for answers. Alas, others are on the same trail, including FBI Special