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...