Book Review : The Third Eye - David Knowles**** I got this from Leeds Bookcrossers a couple of months ago, I didn't think it was my sort of book but when I eventually got it opened I read right through in a couple of sessions and really enjoyed it. Jefferson lives in a private apartment block in New York, his parents own the block and he lets the apartments to tenants. The sort of tenants he really likes are young, female and attractive. Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love. He takes photographs and through his patronage of a young artist, Henry, has some of the most striking images painted. On the wall in the rigged apartment hangs a copy of Degas' Interior, sometimes referred to as The Rape, the painting portrays a plan gone sour and mirrors the events which are about to overtake Jefferson. He inteviews potential candidates for the apartment, and is taken with a young British-Indian women Maya Vanasi. She takes up the offer of the apartment and Jefferson begins his watching routine. Almost from the start Jefferson's plans go astray, he can't capture images of the beautiful Asian woman on film, he quickley becomes obsessed with her, searching the city for her. At the same time, his artist protegee Henry threatens to bring down the whole project by staging an exhibition of the girls who have unknowingly modelled for the paintings. Jefferson's tightly oganised life spins out of control as he seeks to exert his influence over Henry and to find the truth about the mysterious Maya.