The Touch

Book III of the Adversary Cycle

By: F. Paul Wilson

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Paperback | 7 July 2009

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Suddenly, a family physician can heal any illness with a simple touch

After a dozen years of practicing medicine as a family physician, Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the mere touch of his hand. At first his scientific nature refuses to accept what is happening to him, but there is no rational explanation to be found. So Alan gives himself over to this mysterious power, reveling in the ability to cure the incurable, to give hope to the hopeless-for one hour each day.

Although he tries to hide his power, word inevitably leaks out, and soon Alan's life begins to unravel. His marriage and his practice crumble. Only rich, beautiful, enigmatic Sylvia Nash stands by him. And standing with her is Ba, her Vietnamese gardener, who once witnessed a power such as Dr. Bulmer's in his homeland, where it is called Dat-tay-vao. And the Dat-tay-vao always comes with a price.

Help arrives from an unexpected quarter-Senator James McCready offers the use of his family's medical foundation to investigate Alan's supposed power. If it truly exists, he will back Alan with the full weight of the Foundation's international reputation. Feeling that he has reached bottom and that things can only get better, Alan accepts McCready's offer. But he has only begun to pay.

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"A superior supernatural excursion from the author of The Keep and The Tomb.... Hair-raisingly plausible ideas, winningly developed, set in a well-paced, gripping narrative. His best so far." --Kirkus Reviews"[Not] a horror novel in the usual sense, and variations on this idea have been used before, but rarely with the skill and entertainment value of this fine novel." --The San Francisco Chronicle A superior supernatural excursion from the author of "The Keep "and "The Tomb."... Hair-raisingly plausible ideas, winningly developed, set in a well-paced, gripping narrative. His best so far. "Kirkus Reviews" [Not] a horror novel in the usual sense, and variations on this idea have been used before, but rarely with the skill and entertainment value of this fine novel. "The San Francisco Chronicle""

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