Luisa Rey Timeline & Summary

Welcome to the 1970s. Journalist Luisa Rey gets trapped in an elevator with Rufus Sixsmith. Remember him?
Sixsmith leads Luisa to believe that Seaboard Corp's new nuclear reactor on Swannekke Island might have a fatal flaw.
Before Luisa can get an official interview with Sixsmith, Bill Smoke, an assassin hired by Seaboard's CEO, murders Sixsmith in his hotel room.
Luisa pretends to be Sixsmith's daughter and is given his personal possessions, including a sheaf of letters from his first love, Robert Frobisher.
The letters awaken something in Luisa, and she begins to suspect she is Frobisher reincarnated.
With Sixsmith dead, Luisa instead interviews scientist Isaac Sachs.
Sachs leaves a copy of the Sixsmith report in Luisa's trunk, but, leaving Swannekke, Bill Smoke rams her car off a bridge—with her in it.
Luisa survives the fall, but the Sixsmith report does not. Paper and water don't mix.
As Luisa scrambles for the truth, she evades Bill Smoke's multiple murder attempts. Sachs, sadly, does not. He dies when Smoke puts a bomb on his plane.
With the help of Joe Napier, the man whose life was saved by Luisa's dad years ago, they find a copy of the Sixsmith report aboard his yacht. Smoke kills Napier; Napier kills Smoke.
Luisa's article is published. Swannekke is shut down. And Sixsmith's niece gives her Frobisher's final eight letters.