Most of this book is a yawn-making personal history of the author’s 11 years deep in the Scientology Church. There are a lot of anecdotes and a number of references to the extensive training Moon received, but no amazing information – unless you persevere long enough to get to the last 70 pages or so. If you are interested in esoteric / occult information there are plenty of well-presented secrets divulged at the end (although they do not appear to be related to Scientology) – enough to make the purchase price of this otherwise tedious book very worthwhile.

One reviewer on another site claims that you need to read through the Moon books in sequence in order to understand them, and I have. There are in fact seven books based around the depraved Montauk Project: the first three are a trilogy called “Montauk Project”, “Montauk Revisited”, “Pyramids of Montauk” in that order – and I have reviewed these books. Thereafter there were four more: “The Black Sun”, “Synchronicity and the Seventh Seal”, “Montauk Book of the Dead” and “Montauk Book of the Living”, in that order. There were enough nuggets in each of the books that I did not regret the cost, either financial or timewise.

However, I rather believe that the last one – “The Montauk Book of the Living” – is the most worthwhile: one that truly repays several careful read-throughs. If you are pushed for either time or money (as most of us are) and/or do not enjoy working through a very extended series of mystery books, just read the first one “The Montauk Project” (contains shocking information but is very disjointed), then “Synchronicity and the Seventh Seal” which serves up a good amount of clearly explained occult information and is deserving of a second reading, and “The Montauk Book of the Living”, which is the one after this book. If you then feel you need to read the others, you can backtrack. You will almost certainly want to re-read Synchronicity and also the last one at some point, probably sooner than later, as they are so rich. One caution: the books are all irritatingly badly written, but the clearly explained occult information justifies the effort.