BOOK: A coming evil by Vande Velde

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Vande Velde, Vivian._A coming evil_,1998[0-395-90012-3]
During World War II in France some parents send their daughter,
Lisette to live with a cousin in the country.  They are hiding some
Jewish and Gypsy children from the Germans.  Meanwhile Lisette
meets a ghost from the 1300s who slowly, over a few days begins
to materialize.  Eventually the Germans come and the now fully
materialized ghost helps save everyone because he can speak
Frankish and understands the Germans.  The ghost had been a
Knight Templar and the author mixes the evil of the German
invasion and killing of the Jews with the terrible persecution and
eventual downfall of the Knights Templar.  This 212 page book is a
clever mixture of two time periods (a kind of double historical
fiction) while also being a wonderful suspenseful story. It is more
historical fiction than an eerie ghost story.  There are some
historical notes at the end of the book.
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