The Third Man Factor is hailed, along with Ben Sherwood's finebook, The Survivors Club, in Britain's The Sunday Times, as "two hair-raising studies of near-deathexperiences and what to do when facing acute danger."Reviewer James McConnachie writes "Both these booksare founded on astonishing near-death tales, but where one seems tolean across the final boundary, the other hangs onto it with fiercedetermination. The Survivors Club is a gutsy, fact-thick book onluck, accident and improving the odds. It’s all aboutclinging on. The Third Man Factor is a more thoughtfulinvestigation of a strange “presence” felt by lonelyexplorers. As such, it’s more concerned with people who seemto be wilfully relinquishing their grip." McConnachie ends his review arguing forThe Third Man Factor: "It will certainly be more provocative ofthought, and less of anxiety."