The Occupied

November 1, 2016

A childhood warning about the evil just outside human range of vision is all but forgotten until Trevor Black becomes an adult and receives the unwanted gift of perceiving that evil. Trevor's life as a wealthy New York attorney with a beautiful wife begins to crumble as his supernatural visions of the demonic underworld are misinterpreted as signs of a nervous breakdown. When a high school friend is murdered, he returns home to investigate and confront his childhood experience. Trevor soon realizes that all that stands between humanity and the devil is his faith in Jesus. Parshall's (The Mark of Evil) spare style and eerie sense of foreboding heighten the tension to an unbearable level until the climatic final battle. VERDICT With its well-rendered characters, the author's latest supernatural thriller offers a realistic portrayal of a fallen world and the one true believer in Christ who can save it, for now. In the manner of Stephen King and Dean Koontz, Parshall pens a horrifying story of the unseen evils inherent in our society.

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