A Question of Possession a novel J O H N F O N S
"I didn't know it at the time, but that "nasty bump on the head"" had changed my life forever!" - Jack
Is Jack’s ‘spirit’ real? Is Jack actually possessed by an ‘evil spirit’?
Can Jack and Rita be found?
Jack and his widowed Aunt Rita have gone missing from Rita’s stately home, ‘Fairways’. The only clues as to their whereabouts are contained in cheap, school-boy writing tablets discovered by Jack’s mother, Nell, during her covert search of Fairways. Nell, for reasons of her own, chooses to withhold their availability from Jack’s father, Paul, and from the local sheriff, reading them at night in the privacy of her locked bedroom.
These writings, as Nell quickly discovers, were the handiwork of Jack and his live-in ‘spirit’ – who said his name was ‘Fritz’, and claimed to be a dead Luftwaffe pilot. The ‘spirit’ of the aristocratic Fritz entered Jack’s body at the time the young boy suffered a traumatic head injury; an event which coincided with Fritz’s death – under questionable circumstances – in the waning days of World War II. In his writings, Jack tells of his extraordinary, complicated relationship with the ‘spirit’, of his troubled home-life, of the life-changing love of his Aunt Rita, of his ‘coming-of-age’ experiences, and of the mysterious Jewish war-refugee, Hannah. In his own writings, Fritz tells of his privileged-life in Nazi Germany, of his evil antagonist, Oberst Dietrich Muenster, of his efforts to survive treachery and deceit, and of his struggles to keep the accident-prone Jack alive. The ‘spirit’ believes that Jack is his only means for returning undetected to Germany to resolve unsettled matters.
Paul mounts his own search for Jack and Rita, but without the benefit of the information contained in the writings. His search is also plagued with partial, out-of-date information and unanswered questions: Is Jack’s ‘spirit’ real? Is Jack actually possessed by an ‘evil spirit’? Can Jack and Rita be found – and in time?
"Jack, my name is Fritz, and I will not hurt you. In fact, I am here to rescue you....But in return, I need your help." - Fritz
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