

A woman called Virginia from the Cronus Club visited Harry, helped him to commit suicide, and arranged to meet with him in his fifth life where she explained to him the history of the Cronus Club and admitted him as a member. Phearson recaptured Harry and began to torture him to get him to reveal what he knew about the future.

Harry escaped and used the personal ads section of a newspaper to contact the Cronus Club and ask them to help him. Phearson tried to use Harry’s knowledge of the future to change the course of history. Phearson told Harry about an organization called the Cronus Club, founded by people who were said to live their lives over and over again.

Harry was removed from the hospital by an American government agent called Franklin Phearson who noticed that Harry’s predictions about the future were accurate and believed that Harry was sane. Jenny thought that Harry was mentally ill and he was taken to a psychiatric hospital and severely drugged. Harry’s love for Jenny motivated him to tell her the truth about how he had been reincarnated and was now living the same life for the fourth time which meant he was able to predict the future. In Harry’s fourth life, he married a woman called Jenny. When this failed to end the cycle, Harry spent his third life travelling the globe studying the world’s major religions, looking for answers which would explain his predicament. When Harry died at the end of his first life and discovered he had been reborn into his second life, it drove him to madness and he committed suicide at age 7. Harry’s first life was largely uneventful as he did not yet know that he was a kalachakra. Harry’s mother died during childbirth, so the Hulne family arranged for Harry to be adopted by their groundsman and his wife, Patrick and Harriet August. She was raped by Rory Hulne and then fired when the family discovered she was pregnant.

His mother was a kitchen maid in the manor house of the Hulne family. Harry was born in the women’s restroom at Berwick-upon-Tweed train station in the North East of England in 1918. The novel opens at the end of Harry’s eleventh life when he was visited on his deathbed by a young girl, also a kalachakra, who came to warn Harry that the end of the world was coming and that it was getting faster. Harry August is a kalachakra: a species of humans who live the same life over and over again returning to their point of birth after every time they die.
