Review of CONFRONTING THE VOID by Steve Lazarowitz

www.BooksForABuck.com, February 2005

When Major Jack McDaniel (M.D.) is swept up by the 'Agency' and sent off to the moon to find his missing friend, Jack doesn't plan on much. Lieutenant Commander Brandon Alexander was better at hiding than Jack could ever be at looking. The psychic connection they'd shared in college had long-since faded. Still, when the Agency insisted, arguing was a waste of time, at best. Jack went along for the ride--and found himself put up in a pretty nice lunar hotel. But when Jack looked more closely at the video of Brandon's last sighting, he discovered a clue that led him into a world of drugs, danger, and a project so secret, not even Jack's high security classification had prepared him for it.

Science has advanced in this near-future story, but humans remain the same--caught up in their own interests, their own politics, and their own ambitions to conquer the stars. Brandon had discovered something--but he wasn't able to go through channels with his knowledge. He could, though, use his psychic connection to Jack. What Jack didn't know was whether that was a good thing.

Author Steve Lazarowitz spins a powerful adventure tale as Jack plunges from the moon to a secret 'dark-side' base and then to a spaceship that seems out of control. His psychic link to his friend provides him information, but induces him to take risks he never would have dared before. On the ship, facing certain death, Jack learns more about himself and his relationship with others than even his psychological practice would have led him to believe possible.

Lazarowitz is at his strongest when probing the relationships between people and the strange power our minds have over both ourselves and reality. In this very short novel, he takes the reader on a fascinating ride.

Four Stars

Approximately 35,000 words

Reviewed 2/02/05

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