In a major review of The Third Man Factor , The Wall Street Journal's Michael J. Ybarra has endorsed the book as "highly readable ... gripping." Here's an excerpt from the full review, which is available at wsj.com here.

In "The Third Man Factor," John Geiger, a fellow at the University of Toronto, presents many accounts of such experiences, and not only from climbers. Among those who have felt a ghostly companionship he cites Charles Lindbergh on his solo flight across the ­Atlantic in 1927 and…

Margaret Atwood, the award-winning author of many books including Payback:Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008), Oryx and Crake, the Booker Prize-winning The Blind Assassin, Alias Grace, The Handmaid's Tale, and many other classic novels, essay and poetry collections, including one of my own favourites Strange Thing: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature), has posted about The Third Man Factor on Twitter:

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In its July 20 issue, the influential Publishers Weekly endorsed The Third Man Factor in a prepublication review. Here is the article:The Third Man Factor: Surviving the ImpossibleJohn Geiger. Weinstein, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-60286-107-7

A scientific mystery or divine intervention is how Geiger, the editorial board editor at the Globe and Mail and author of Frozen in Time, describes "The Third Man Factor," the human knack of facing deprivation and possible death with an unseen presence…