Library Journal
Caidin has authored or coauthored well over 50 books, mostly about aircraft, rockets, and space flight. Now, for some reason, he has concocted a batch of off-the-wall whoppers that have little relationship to anything in the real world--and passes them off as true. He tells of the woman whose ''body hurls out an electrical charge of 80,000 volts'' and wrecks nearby computers. He has the story of the ''electromagnetic 'cold explosion' '' in the Pacific, the size of Indiana, for which ''scientists don't have the answer.'' He trots out ''Bigfoot,'' who can be shot repeatedly by high-powered rifles and disappears without a trace. And he has the usual assortment of dowsers, poltergeists, flying saucers, and near-death sufferers, so beloved by a certain type of reader. The book has all the charm of the National Enquirer , but without the credibility.-- Dave Summers, Holly Twp. Lib., Mich.