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Memory makes reality.
Thats what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the media has dubbed False Memory Syndromea mysterious affliction that drives its victims mad with memories of a life they never lived.
Thats what neuroscientist Helena Smith believes. Its why shes dedicated her life to creating a technology that will let us preserve our most precious memories. If she succeeds, anyone will be able to re-experience a first kiss, the birth of a child, the final moment with a dying parent.
As Barry searches for the truth, he comes face-to-face with an opponent more terrifying than any diseasea force that attacks not just our minds but the very fabric of the past. And as its effects begin to unmake the world as we know it, only he and Helena, working together, will stand a chance at defeating it.
But how can they make a stand when reality itself is shifting and crumbling all around them?

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright 2019 by Blake Crouch

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available upon request.

ISBN9781524759780

Ebook ISBN9781524759803

International Edition ISBN9781984826015

Cover design by Christopher Brand

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Time is but memory in the making VLADIMIR NABOKOV BARRY November 2 2018 - photo 3

Time is but memory in the making.

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

BARRY
November 2 2018 Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main - photo 4

November 2, 2018

Barry Sutton pulls over into the fire lane at the main entrance of the Poe Building, an Art Deco tower glowing white in the illumination of its exterior sconces. He climbs out of his Crown Vic, rushes across the sidewalk, and pushes through the revolving door into the lobby.

The night watchman is standing by the bank of elevators, holding one open as Barry hurries toward him, his shoes echoing off the marble.

What floor? Barry asks as he steps into the elevator car.

Forty-one. When you get up there, take a right and go all the way down the hall.

More cops will be here in a minute. Tell them I said to hang back until I give a signal.

The elevator races upward, belying the age of the building around it, and Barrys ears pop after a few seconds. When the doors finally part, he moves past a sign for a law firm. Theres a light on here and there, but the floor stands mostly dark. He runs along the carpet, passing silent offices, a conference room, a break room, a library. The hallway finally opens into a reception area thats paired with the largest office.

In the dim light, the details are all in shades of gray. A sprawling mahogany desk buried under files and paperwork. A circular table covered in notepads and mugs of cold, bitter-smelling coffee. A wet bar stocked exclusively with bottles of Macallan Rare. A glowing aquarium that hums on the far side of the room and contains a small shark and several tropical fish.

As Barry approaches the French doors, he silences his phone and removes his shoes. Taking the handle, he eases the door open and slips out onto the terrace.

The surrounding skyscrapers of the Upper West Side look mystical in their luminous shrouds of fog. The noise of the city is loud and closecar horns ricocheting between the buildings and distant ambulances racing toward some other tragedy. The pinnacle of the Poe Building is less than fifty feet abovea crown of glass and steel and gothic masonry.

The woman sits fifteen feet away beside an eroding gargoyle, her back to Barry, her legs dangling over the edge.

He inches closer, the wet flagstones soaking through his socks. If he can get close enough without detection, hell drag her off the edge before she knows what

I smell your cologne, she says without looking back.

He stops.

She looks back at him, says, Another step and Im gone.

Its difficult to tell in the ambient light, but she appears to be in the vicinity of forty. She wears a dark blazer and matching skirt, and she must have been sitting out here for a while, because her hair has been flattened by the mist.

Who are you? she asks.

Barry Sutton. Im a detective in the Central Robbery Division of NYPD.

They sent someone from the Robbery?

I happened to be closest. Whats your name?

Ann Voss Peters.

May I call you Ann?

Sure.

Is there anyone I can call for you?

She shakes her head.

Im going to step over here so you dont have to keep straining your neck to look at me.

Barry moves away from her at an angle that also brings him to the parapet, eight feet down from where shes sitting. He glances once over the edge, his insides contracting.

All right, lets hear it, she says.

Im sorry?

Arent you here to talk me off? Give it your best shot.

He decided what he would say riding up in the elevator, recalling his suicide training. Now, squarely in the moment, he feels less confident. The only thing hes sure of is that his feet are freezing.

I know everything feels hopeless to you in this moment, but this is just a moment, and moments pass.

Ann stares straight down the side of the building, four hundred feet to the street below, her palms flat against the stone that has been weathered by decades of acid rain. All she would have to do is push off. He suspects shes walking herself through the motions, tiptoeing up to the thought of doing it. Amassing that final head of steam.

He notices shes shivering.

May I give you my jacket? he asks.

Im pretty sure you dont want to come any closer, Detective.

Why is that?

I have FMS.

Barry resists the urge to run. Of course hes heard of False Memory Syndrome, but hes never known or met someone with the affliction. Never breathed the same air. He isnt sure he should attempt to grab her now. Doesnt even want to be this close. No, fuck that. If she moves to jump, hell try to save her, and if he contracts FMS in the process, so be it. Thats the risk you take becoming a cop.

How long have you had it? he asks.

One morning, about a month ago, instead of my home in Middlebury, Vermont, I was suddenly in an apartment here in the city, with a stabbing pain in my head and a terrible nosebleed. At first, I had no idea where I was. Then I rememberedthis life too. Here and now, Im single, an investment banker, I live under my maiden name. But I haveshe visibly braces herself against the emotionmemories of my other life in Vermont. I was a mother to a nine-year-old boy named Sam. I ran a landscaping business with my husband, Joe Behrman. I was Ann Behrman. We were as happy as anyone has a right to be.

What does it feel like? Barry asks, taking a clandestine step closer.

What does what feel like?

Your false memories of this Vermont life.

I dont just remember my wedding. I remember the fight over the design for the cake. I remember the smallest details of our home. Our son. Every moment of his birth. His laugh. The birthmark on his left cheek. His first day of school and how he didnt want me to leave him. But when I try to picture Sam, hes in black and white. Theres no color in his eyes. I tell myself they were blue. I only see black.

All my memories from that life are in shades of gray, like film noir stills. They feel real, but theyre haunted, phantom memories. She breaks down. Everyone thinks FMS is just false memories of the big moments of your life, but what hurts so much more are the small ones. I dont just remember my husband. I remember the smell of his breath in the morning when he rolled over and faced me in bed. How every time he got up before I did to brush his teeth, I knew hed come back to bed and try to have sex. Thats the stuff that kills me. The tiniest, perfect details that make me know it happened.

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