The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson is a wild ride of conspiracy, sex, violence and a anarchy loving midget named after a mathematical tool used in statistical analysis. The best description of the book comes from a Rolling Stone blurb: “A hundred pages in  I couldn’t figure out why I was wasting my time with this nonsense…after three hundred I was having too much fun to quit and by the end I was eager to believe every word”

The two Roberts were working together as co-editors of The Playboy Forum and were receiving all kinds of conspiracy letters. They decided to write a novel that would put all the conspiracies together into one giant conspiracy and simultaneously prove and disprove the conspiracy. So they threw together every conspiracy that crossed their desk and tied it all back to the Illuminati (yes, the Illuminati that was in Angels and Demons as well as numerous other books).

Their is nothing I can write about the plot that will make any sense. The book is a series of conspiracies that all tumble into one another as part of a police investigation. But you should read this book. Like the blurb says, don’t stop after 100 pages, keep going and it will get more fun. Highly recommended ride, but you have to be willing to join in the fun.