The Banjax Arrest is a psychological mystery set among religious fanatics on a distant lunar colony. This fast-paced novel combines a young man's inner struggle with a quest to bring down a tyrant and rescue a community from impending destruction. After sustaining a traumatic head injury as a teenager Troy Pace suffers severe memory loss and his personality is altered. Once a promising student he becomes an anti-social drop-out whose repeated brushes with the law embarrass his high-ranking politician father. Following a violent nocturnal episode with a young woman he is dispatched to a remote moon acquired for habitation by the fugitive tycoon Baron Banjax. There he discovers a colony whose inhabitants are struggling to survive after a devastating meteorite impact and over which hangs the shadow of the ruthless cult leader, Croman. Still struggling to control his own demonic urges, Troy undertakes to carry out an assassination that will save the colonists. Yet in seeking redemption for his past misdeeds he will ultimately learn that he is a pawn in an even more sinister game.