The Man in Black

This novel by the prolific writer Stanley John Weyman takes us back to early seventeenth-century France. The central character is a twelve-year-old orphan boy, Jehan, who has the great misfortune to fall into the clutches of the cruel man in black. Weyman has the art of transporting his readers into the scene that he describes and this novel is a tense, suspenseful, and page-turning thrill of a read.