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An FBI agent, tormented by a death he wasnt able to prevent, a crime hes never been able to solve and a love hes never forgotten, discovers that his true conflict resides not in his past, but in aPast Life.Haunted by a twenty-year old murder of a beautiful young painter, Lucian Glass keeps his demons at bay through his fascinating work as a Special Agent with the FBIs Art Crime Team. Currently investigating a crazed art collector who has begun destroying prized masterworks, Glass is thrust into a bizarre hostage negotiation that takes him undercover at the Phoenix Foundationdedicated to the science of past life studywhere, in order to maintain his cover, he agrees to submit to the treatment of a hypnotist.Under hypnosis, Glass travels from ancient Greece to 19th century Persia, while the case takes him from New York to Paris and the movie capital of world. These journeys will change his very understanding of reality, lead him to question his own sanity and land him at the center of perhaps the most audacious art heist in history: the theft of a 1,500 year old sculpture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.International bestselling author M. J. Roses The Hynpotist is her most mesmerizing novel yet. An adventure, a love story, a clash of cultures, a spiritual quest, it is above all a thrilling capstone to her unique Reincarnation novels, The Reincarnationist and The Memorist.

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THE HYPNOTIST
Also by M. J. Rose

Fiction

THE VENUS FIX

LYING IN BED

THE DELILAH COMPLEX

THE HALO EFFECT

SHEET MUSIC

FLESH TONES

IN FIDELITY

LIP SERVICE

The Reincarnationist series

THE REINCARNATIONIST

THE MEMORIST

THE HYPNOTIST

Nonfiction

BUZZ YOUR BOOK
(with Douglas Clegg)

HOW TO PUBLISH AND PROMOTE ONLINE
(with Angela Adair-Hoy)

M.J. ROSE
THE HYPNOTIST

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To Mad Max Perkins,
for your faith


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Often, in the cosseted quarters of a museum, we forget that every work of ancient art is a survivor, a representative of untold numbers of similar artworks that perished. This triumphant exhibition makes us remember, while demonstrating that every survivor saves much more than just itself: long strands of culture, identity and history waiting to be woven back together.

Roberta Smith, writing in the New York Times about the exhibit Silent Survivors of Afghanistans 4,000 Tumultuous Years

CONTENTS
Chapter
ONE

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Twenty Years Ago

Time played tricks on him whenever he stood in front of the easel. Hypnotized by the rhythm of the brush on the canvas, by one color merging into another, the two shades creating a third, the third melting into a fourth, he was lulled into a state of single-minded consciousness focused only on the image emerging. Immersed in the act of painting, he forgot obligations, missed classes, didnt remember to eat or to drink or look at the clock. This was why, at 5:25 that Friday evening, Lucian Glass was rushing down the urine-stinking steps to the gloomy subway platform when he should have already been uptown where Solange Jacobs was waiting for him at her fathers framing gallery. Together, they planned to walk over to an exhibit a block away, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

When he reached the store, the shade was drawn and the Closed sign faced out, but the front door wasnt locked. Inside, none of the lamps were lit, but there was enough ambient twilight coming through the windows for him to see that Solange wasnt there, only dozens and dozens of empty frames, encasing nothing but pale yellow walls, crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, waiting to be filled like lost souls looking for mates.

As he hurried toward the workroom in the back, the commingled smells of glue and sawdust grew stronger and, except for his own voice calling out, the silence louder.

Solange?

Stopping on the threshold, he looked around but saw only more empty frames. Where was she? And why was she here alone? Lucian was walking toward the worktable, wondering if there was another room back there, when he saw her. Solange was sprawled on the floor, thrown against a large, ornate frame as if she were its masterpiece, her blood splattered on its broken gold arms, a still life in terror. There were cuts on her face and hands and more blood pooled beneath her.

Kneeling, he touched her shoulder. Solange?

Her eyes stayed closed but she offered a ghost of a smile.

While he was thinking of what to do firsthelp her or call 911she opened her eyes and lifted her hand to her cheek. Her fingertips came away red with blood.

Cut? she asked, as if she had no idea what had happened.

He nodded.

Promise, she whispered, you wont paint me like this Solange had a crescent-shaped scar on her forehead and was forever making sure her bangs covered it. Then, catching herself, shed laugh at her vanity. That laugh now came out as a moan.

When her eyes fluttered closed, Lucian put his head on her chest. He couldnt hear a heartbeat. Putting his mouth over hers, he attempted resuscitation, frantically mimicking what hed seen people do in movies, not sure he was doing it right.

He thought he saw her hand move and had a moment of elation that she was going to be all right before realizing it was only his reflection moving in the frame. His head back on her chest, he listened but heard nothing. As he lay there, Solanges blood seeping out of her wound, soaking his hair and shirt, he felt a short, fierce burst of wind.

Lucian was tall but thinjust a skinny kid studying to be a painter. He didnt know how to defend himself, didnt know how to deflect the knife that came down, ripping through his shirt and flesh and muscle. Again. And then again. So many times that finally he wasnt feeling the pain; he was the pain, had become the agony. Making an effort to stay focused, as if somehow that would matter, he tried to memorize all the colors of the scene around him: his attackers shirtsleeve was ochre, Solanges skin was titanium whitehe was drifting

There were voices next, very far-off and indistinct. Lucian tried to grasp what they were saying.

extensive blood loss

multiple stab wounds

He was traveling away from the words. Or were they traveling away from him? Were the people leaving him alone here? Didnt they realize he was hurt? No, they werent leaving himthey were lifting him. Moving him. He felt cool air on his face. Heard traffic.

Their voices were becoming more indistinct.

cant get a pulse

Were losing himquick, quick. Were losing him

The distance between where he was and where they were increased with every second. The words were just faint whispers now, as soft as a wisp of Solanges hair.

Too latehes gone.

The last thing he heard was one paramedic telling the other the time was 6:59 p.m. A silence entered Lucian, filling him up and giving him, at last, respite from the pain.

Chapter
TWO

The Present

The building on Fortieth Street and Third Avenue was a series of cantilevered glass boxes. Upstairs on the sixteenth floor, in an opulent office inconsistent with the modern structure, three men were on a conference call with a fourth via a secure phone line. It was an unnecessary precaution. When the mission of Iran to the UN had rented this space, theyd torn down the walls so they could properly insulate against long-range distance microphones. But one could never be too cautious, especially on foreign soil.

A fog of smoke hung over the windowless conference room table and the odor of heavy tobacco overwhelmed Ali Samimi. He hated the stink of the Cuban cigars but he wasnt in charge here and couldnt complain. He coughed. Coughed again. It was so like his boss to blow the smoke in his direction, despite knowing he was sensitive to it. Farid Taghinia was one mean motherfucking son of a bitch. Samimi stifled the smile that just thinking the American curse words brought to his lips.

We have no trouble working with the British, the French or the Austrians. Only with the Americans do complications and conflict continue to arise. Havent I been generous in offering to allow the museum to keep the sculpture for the opening of their new wing? Havent they seen the documents we provided proving the sculpture was stolen? Why are they still hesitating? Even though his voice was traveling six thousand miles, from Tehran to Manhattan, Hicham Nassirs puzzlement was perceptible.

Because I havent shown them the documents, said Vartan Reza, a craggy-faced, Iranian-born American lawyer who specialized in cultural heritage cases. It had been almost two years since the mission had hired Reza to orchestrate the return of a piece of sculpture currently owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the basis that it had been illegally taken out of Iran over a hundred years before. The lawyer had hesitated in accepting the case until Taghinia had made it clear that a generous fee would not be the lawyers only recompense. The members of Rezas family still living in Tehran would be well provided for, too.

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