On ping pong table

Another story in Veteran is also pretty good. An American tourist in Italy is suckered by an older hippie pretending to be a German who was a doctor during the war, and saw the ghost of a nun from four hundred years ago come to help save the lives of the wounded soldiers he was treating. Fascinating story, and I was beginning to wonder if Forsyth maybe really wanted to write a "ghost story," since that's not his usual thing. Then the hippie gets the tourist to donate $500 toward helping out local orphans, instead of buying himself something such as a ping pong table, but of course it's all a lie, and so more typically a Forsyth story, because about a scam, though an interesting one to read.