The author, a former British Secret Intelligence Agent and now Chief Investigator for Australian Skeptics Inc. has, over the past twelve years, devoted his time and energy to lnvestigating and reporting on extraordinary claims made by psychics, clairvoyants, diviners, card readers, astrologers, numerologists and other proponents of the occult.
He has exposed the con-artists, pretenders and ripoff merchants who exploit the vulnerable and take advantage of the public who, in the main, tend not to he scientificallv literate.
Many of his exposés are detailed in this book and serve as a warning to those who are prone to unquestioningly accept extraordinary claims.