Review: Beyond the Light
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
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 some one 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.