John Aubrey Anderson, Wedgewood Grey

Wedgewood Grey

John Aubrey Anderson

Warner, February 2007, $19.99, 372 pp.

ISBN 044659506

In Cat Lake, Mississippi, black man Mose Worthington sees a group of young white men harassing a black woman and her child, so he goes to rescue them. He is joined by a white Good Samaritan who happens to be there at the right time and in the right place to even the odds somewhat. The lead bully Oliver Wendell Bainbridge refuses to back down; by the time the battle ends, one is dead, the woman is dying and one of the remaining men is possessed before he is destroyed.

Mose takes the youngster on the run with him, and he uses his connections to establish a new identity for himself and the boy, who he promised his mother he would raise as a son. The congressman is putting pressure to find the two fugitives, and FBI Agent Jeff Wagner comes to town looking to find the runaways. Nobody will help him because they know Mose, and remember how he lost his son due to demonic possession, and they know that demons were partly responsible for the Second Battle of Cat Lake. Those who search for Mose and his "son" are hindered by Christians who fight to keep them safe.

Readers who like the tales of Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker will thoroughly enjoy WEDGEWOOD GREY, where the battle between Heaven and Hell is fought on earth through angels, demons and the humans who choose to be part of the war. The character development is incredible, because those who serve the dark are as three dimensional as those who joined the light. Without being preachy, John Aubrey Anderson reminds his audience that evil with a capital E exists. They also get a deep picture of what it was like to be black in the Deep South in the 1960's.