View is a fast-paced paranormal romance thriller that keeps you turning pages. When a young Air Force technician, Sgt. Max Leszek, feels oddly compelled to take an illegal photograph of a mysterious aircraft in a desert hangar, he knows he is making a mistake, but he has no idea what a huge mistake it is. As the author of View: A Paranormal Romance, Ed Morawski, observes (quoting Victor Hugo): “The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often composed of a multitude of strands.”

In short order, the photo disappears from Leszek’s possession, and he is arrested for espionage. Rather than arrest him however, the Air Force makes him an offer of employment, the nature of which is not at first revealed. It turns out that they have discovered he has psychic talents, and have hired him to work with a mysterious young Asian woman they have found wandering in the desert near an Air Force base in the Southwest—a woman who has a talent that is of enormous value to military intelligence. Alicia is a ‘remote viewer,” an individual capable of gathering information from a location that is concealed from the physical perception of the viewer. Through his interactions with Alicia, Max discovers the alarming nature of her powers, while uncovering a few of his own. As Max works with Alicia and her handlers to thwart various terrorist threats he begins to fall in love with her. Simultaneously, he begins to realize that she is extremely dangerous, and possesses dark secrets of which even her keepers are unaware. As she seduces him physically and spiritually, the passion and peril of his connection to Alicia intensifies. Gradually, Max begins to realize that he is being drawn toward a disturbing destiny over which he has little control.

The story is fantastic, but there is just enough verisimilitude to make it ring true. The Soviet Union was deeply invested in remote viewing, and the U.S. Army took it seriously enough to run a series of tests on the phenomenon between 1977 and 1995 through “Project Stargate,” a program that has since been terminated. According to author Ed Morawski, other government remote viewing programs included “Sun Streak” by the DIA and INSCOM, and SCANATE, buy the CIA.

Author Morawski is an Air Force veteran and an expert in electronic security, which lends a verisimilitude to the military, action and security aspects of the tale. Readers who are intrigued by the paranormal, and like fast action thrillers are sure to enjoy View.