He'd been a reporter for over a decade, and Peter Thiel had a media profile as an investor and an entrepreneur.

This book will appeal to anyone interested in conspiracy theories, misinformation, culture wars, social media and contemporary society. Written as a historical, archival book of scholarship, it is pure fiction, but as such it is entirely delightful and strange: a Borgesian enterprise of conspiratorial musings and a wondrous read. Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “ 1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. Cohn not only traces its strange origins as a forgery (a plagiarized adaptation of a French satire, rewritten most likely by the Russian secret police) and its dissemination around the world (spread by powerful figures that included Henry Ford), he also makes sense of the book as a “literary” document—how it’s structured, how it uses rhetorical tricks and tactics to spread its insidious message, and why it has stubbornly endured for over a century.It also argues against the tendency to view conspiracy theories as merely evidence of a fringe or pathological way of thinking. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Conspiracy theories are nothing new: history is littered with stories that offer the flipside to the accepted truth, and the cases gathered here cover a wide array of subjects including aliens, secret societies, government, cover-ups and celebrity deaths.

Levy defines this as a collective psychosis of humanity that wreaks havoc on the world around us – a psychosis that we must face down before we can hope to defeat it. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. This trilogy collection is perhaps the granddaddy of conspiracy novels because, frankly, it encompasses nearly all of them — at least at the time it was written — then weaves in fictional mythos, occult religions, fascist political movements, and a post-modern deconstruction of itself. Conspiracy theorists, Robertson argues, develop a shadow kind of “capital” to confront the elites’ actual power: epistemic capital, based on their “knowledge” of what’s “truly” going on.As such, I’ve found them to be crucial tools in our arsenal to push back against the paranoia and disinformation that’s gripping our country. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. The Lost Symbol is a masterstroke of storytelling - a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths.