Robert Cormier A writer's manuscript found after his death contains the incredible story of the boy who could become invisible, a power which is passed down the generations.
Terrible power brings terrible temptations.
So far the wielders of the power, the faders, have all been normal, sane and stable. It is a tribute to the writing that we come to understand how this gift is a curse, not through authorial sermonising but by being taken into the heart of the experience and tasting its dry emptiness for ourselves. For we can see without being told that this power has no good uses, only a temptation to evil which torments the possessor as the Ring torments Frodo. It may have been done before but not better.