The Other Side of Memory

by Robert Vaughan

NYT bestselling author Robert Vaughan, who served 3 tours in Nam, brings you a riveting contemporary military story with deep romance elements. When Jake Elliot "dies" on the operating table in 1996 he is encountered by the spirit of Tony Cordelli, his guide to the other side. Then, in a flash, Jake BECOMES Tony Cordelli; it is 1966, and Jake is reliving the last year of Tony's life just before his deployment to Vietnam. As Tony, Jake meets, and falls in love with Maggie Morris. The love affair seems star-crossed, he is a warrior, she is a war protester. When Tony is killed in Vietnam, Jake is resuscitated by the doctors, and is once more Jake Elliot. Thirty years have passed and Jake is confused by memories that aren't his own . . . memories of Vietnam, where he never served, and memories of a love affair with a woman he has never met. Or has he? Jake is a novelist, are the memories the product of his creative imagination? Somehow he knows, regardless of how improbable it might be, that they are real. Driven by these memories, he finds Maggie, learns that she is widowed, and falls in love with her.....all over again....for the very first time.

Genres: Amazon, Historical Fiction

306 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 12, 2014

About the author

Robert Vaughan is an American writer. He has also written a series of contemporary and historical romance novels under several pseudonyms including "Paula Moore" and "Paula Fairman". His father served in the military and Robert followed him in the 1950s, entering army aviation. He served until the Vietnam War and won numerous medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with several oak-leaf clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, and several other medals.
His early books reflected his military background: the first novel was about the US Army along the DMZ in Korea, followed by a trilogy set in Vietnam. There are more than 9 million of his books in print under various names. He was inducted into the Writers’ Hall of Fame in 1998.

Reviews

[Joann · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I have read


I got this book by accident. Clicked wrong button!! Glad I did it was really a great read. After reading it I looked at the authors other books but nothing interred me. The thing I liked about it was the near death and what that caused. Read it in one sitting. Buy it read it enjoy it

[Mary Fricke · Rating 4 out of 5]

During routine surgery Jake Elliot dies on the operating table and his 'death encounter' is like none ever reported--at least none that I've ever read about. Imagine encountering a total stranger and then returning to life not only with that stranger's memories but with a burning desire to live with that stranger's memories as if they were your own. This proposes a whole knew world of 'what if's" and 'maybes'. In Jake's case it leads not only to study a time he never knew but to love.... until he is forced to explain to his new love that he discovered her existence during the few seconds he lay dead on the operating table.

This story is a really good page turner, full of imagination and mystery. It is typical Robert Vaughan and he always writes the best novels. But I have a minor personal problem with the death experience concept of linking one person's memories to another. That interferes with my fervent belief of heavenly happiness throughout eternity. If someone dies but seeks to return to their life on earth then they are not really at rest, are they? Mr. Vaughan paints this concept so realistically I am certain I would not want to be the recipient of someone else's unsettled memories as Jake Elliot was.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great story. Mr Vaughn has a new fan.