This story has everything - UFO's, giant aliens, mass hypnosis of schoolchildren and an entire village community, mass hysteria, nuclear weapons, government and military conspiracies, strange 'futuristic' silver cars, experimental aircraft, ancient legends, druids, vicious mutilations and murders, torture and slaughter of animals, a haunted hotel, secret tunnels, men in black (!) AND a top secret military intelligence base located hundreds of feet below the streets of Central London. I look forward to reading more by him in the future. I enjoyed, “The Ghost Hunters,” by Neil Spring, and I was impressed by this, second novel. I applaud the author for giving us realistic characters, who are not black and white, but many shades of grey.

Robert Wilding is a damaged, unsure, unwilling, paranoid man – who is often afraid and yet all the more brave for that. It was original to have a main, male character, who was not the super action hero of so many books. This is a creepy and atmospheric read, with a fast moving storyline and a good plot. As Robert makes contact with his local reporter, Frank Frobisher, Dr Caxton (whose later book, “The Mind Possessed, a Personal Investigation into the Broad Haven Triangle,” we read snippets off throughout the novel), his grandfather and the owner of the local hotel, Araceli Romero, he attempts to discover what is happening in this small town and what evil the locals are under the spell off. Those who have witnessed these events are becoming ill and it is obvious that something is very wrong. There are odd lights, possible sightings of UFO’s, lights which switch off and on and more. Robert has been sent, by his mentor, Admiral Hill Bartlett, to investigate the plague of strange phenomena that has broken out in the small community of the Havens. With bars on the windows, visitors were unwelcome and his grandfather told him giants lived near the cliffs. Robert was always told to stay away from Stack Rocks Island in the bay a place he was drawn to. He recalls his father as an obsessive, religious man, who taught Robert to fear and has left him with compulsive, obsessive disorders. As a young boy, his parents dead, he was taken to live with his grandfather at Ravenstone Farm. However, what begins as a normal day, if personally important to Robert, ends in violence and upheaval.īefore Robert is really aware of what is happening, he finds himself back in the place he has spent his life trying to escape - the Havens in St Brides Bay, West Wales. He is due to attend a Defence Select Committee meeting, where he hopes to get answers about what happened to his mother some years ago, after she protested at American bases in the UK.

The main character in this novel is Robert Wilding, who works in 1979, when we first meet him, for the MP, Paul Bestford.

The Ghost Hunters by Neil Spring