Ping and Steve are invited to a farm in the center of France. The farm run by Collette is a cattle farm next to Toulx-Saint-Croix just outside the limits of the old province of Berry. Collette learns that her brother Jules in a neighboring city is having problems, the village seems to be under the subversive control of a Sorcerer or wicked Alchemist. Collette, Steve and Ping visit Jules at his home and they observe parapsychological phenomena and discuss the strange events occurring n their village with their neighbors. Steve and Ping go to see the most famous Alchemist in Bourges to be...

While doing research on the Internet concerning an article he is writing, Steve comes upon a startling and little known fact concerning the French 2nd Armored Division and the German 33rd Waffen SS Charlemagne Division that occurred at the end of the war. The German 33rd Waffen French SS Charlemagne Division is composed of Frenchmen who joined the German army. A patrol of 20 French Waffen SS of the Charlemagne Division surrendered without trying to fight to the US American army. These men were transferred to the control of the French 2nd Armored Division. The French SS tried to escape by fear...