When people across the country start going blind for no discernable reason, the USA is gripped by panic. No one knows what is going on. No one, that is, except for a con- artist fortune-teller and a bona fide psychic.

When the President of the United States is blinded as a warning for the citizens of the country to revert to the lifestyle of 200 years ago, people quickly become believers that flashing lights in the sky are more than lightning and flickering images of long-dead men are more than harmless.

BLIND PANIC concludes the events that originated in Masterton's THE MANITOU, but one does not need to have read THE MANITOU to understand this current work. With a deft hand, Masterton provides interesting, rather than ponderous, exposition. An excellent work that will thrill fans of Masterton, Stephen King and Robert McCammon, BLIND PANIC imbues the reader with a heart- racing tremor of potential threat.