<P> Harry takes a personal vacation from Vincent's project and travels back to Leningrad . He finds the only member there dead, and soon realizes that Vincent killed her . He asks Vincent about this, and afterwards Harry is kept in the facility as a prisoner . Soon, Harry is tortured for information relating to his exact birthplace and time, which would allow Vincent to permanently kill Harry . Harry does not give any information, and instead Vincent gives him an electric shock intending to completely wipe his memory . However, because Harry is a mnemonic, this does not work . Vincent does not finish the quantum mirror in this life . </P> <P> In the next life, Harry finds that almost all Cronus Clubs have been attacked by Vincent, and many of the few Ouroborans that are still alive have had their memories erased . In the next few lives, Vincent is accelerating the pace of technology so he can get closer to completing the quantum mirror . In the later years of their lives, Harry sees that global warming is also accelerated because of the more quickly industrialized world . He connects this to the warning of the end of the world from the Cronus Club previously . </P> <P> Operating under the false assumption that his memory is erased, Harry becomes a close adviser to Vincent . Publicly, Vincent is a wealthy investor; privately, he is giving explanations of future technology to scientists and is still working on the quantum mirror . Vincent attempts to wipe Harry's memory again . In the next life, Vincent is working on the final iteration on the quantum mirror . When it is nearly finished, he shows his adviser Harry around the underground facility, this time in Switzerland . Vincent had assumed Harry did not remember he was an Ouroboran, and that Harry would not understand certain scientific documents he was allowed to access . However, Harry intentionally sabotaged the project by changing certain numbers and formulae . When Vincent finally tried to turn the quantum mirror on, it created an explosion and gave both Harry and Vincent significant amounts of radiation damage, but killed neither . Later in a hospital, Vincent tells Harry his real birthplace and time and again attempts to erase his memory . Again, it fails and Harry is now able to permanently kill Vincent . </P> <Ul> <Li> Eric Brown writing in The Guardian praises the novel "a gripping read that is often quietly profound, emotionally affecting and intellectually dizzying ." and concludes "As might be expected from such a narrative, the novel is an examination of determinism and free will, but also a subtle study of friendship, love and the fluid complexity of existence ." </Li> <Li> Nancy Hightower in The Washington Post highlights the relationship of Harry to Vincent:' The true heart of the book lies in Harry's twisted relationship with this nemesis, because the only way to kill a kalachakra is to get him to reveal the specifics regarding his birth . Harry's arch enemy ends up becoming, in a sense, his best friend as well as colleague, making their mutual betrayals all the more wrenching .' </Li> <Li> Ana Grilo in Kirkus Reviews describes the book as being' Groundhog Day on Red Bull', it' raises a lot of questions . It features an intriguing premise to start with and the fact that Harry is a member of a group of people who undergo the same process every time they die is all the more fascinating: Who are they? Why are they like that?...Are they living in exactly the same world every time? Or is every life a wholly new one lived in an alternate universe?' . Grilo does though criticize Harry's narrative voice:' Mostly, he experiences life with a strong sense of detachment, a blankness that is partly due to survival instinct, partly due to the fact that he is mnemonic . This blankness unfortunately seeps into the narrative .' and she concludes' inasmuch as the plot is engaging and I was driven to find out how would Harry sort out the impending apocalypse, the question of authenticity of the narrative mode and the blankness of Harry as a character considerably detracted from the overall experience .' </Li> </Ul>

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