The extent to which anything is exciting, frightening or bizarre is subjective, of course, but I think almost everybody would disagree with the claims made on the front cover after reading what follows.

Even a brief glance at the Barney and Betty Hill account should be more interesting than the "Steiner case" described within.

Brief summary: despite numerous typos, subject/verb disagreements, use of wrong words and a generally clunky and unappealing writing style, "Malcolm Kent" is supposed to be the pseudonymn of a successful professional ghostwriter.

He's good friends with a pseudonymous psychoanalyst, "Dr. Emmanuel Brant", who has two pseudonymous patients, brothers, "Jason and Robert Steiner".

The Steiners freak out when they have to drive together at night and when they have to be near the computer tape machines at their office.

Dr. Brant hypnotizes them and extracts subconscious memories of their being abducted after driving home one foggy night. Aboard the alien spaceship one of them has his genitals cursorily examined and both are given opportunities to have sex with a young woman who the author is convinced was either also an alien or some sort of alien creation, not a real Earth woman.

And that's basically it. The tape deck thing was because of equipment in the control room or something, which for some reason the brothers got to hang out in for a while while bound.

It's not at all compelling or even interesting. It's pretty clearly a work of fiction despite the exertions of the author to convince us otherwise. Even if we could know that it were a true account, I still think it wouldn't get much more out of me than a shrug.

There are some obvious opportunities for titillating content here but they're all pretty much completely avoided, which is surprising, considering the 1967 copyright date.

So I think it's for completists only.

The first line is, "Until the strange story of Jason and Robert Steiner was revealed to me, and for a long while afterward, I did not believe in what are commonly called flying saucers".

Already this doesn't make sense, because the author believes the story and is entirely convinced that the Steiners' experiences were real and actually happened. So why would he continue not to believe in flying saucers "for a long while afterward"? This is typical of the lazy writing in this book.