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”

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