The Touch

The Touch is the third book in The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson, but it can easily be read as a stand alone book without first reading The Keep and The Tomb. Lately a meme has been circulating deriding the possibility of spontaneous healing not usually occurring in a medical setting. The Touch poses that exact scenario-what if a nice family doctor could suddenly become a tool for healing. Of course, there are supernatural, primal, pre-Christian elements in all F. Paul Wilson’s books, but unlike the prior two books in the Adversary Cycle, there is no epic clash between good and evil, just individuals placed in complex scenarios where there is no such thing as a happy ending. I found this one quite absorbing in all its tragedy.