' *^*^* ALL FOUR VOLUMES OF THE EXPANDED AND BRILLIANT 'ILLUMINATUS' CONSPIRACY 'TRILOGY', MIXING INTELLECTUAL HUMOR WITH HISTORICAL EVENTS AND PERSONAGES.The Midget, whose name was Markoff Chaney, was no relative of the famous Chaneys of Hollywood, but people did keep making jokes about that. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis were (and are) quite real, and the magickal exercises described are capable of producing results similar to those in our story. * THE AUTHOR REMARKS THAT 'The characters and events in this novel, like those in ordinary life, are partly real and partly the product of somebody s disordered imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time from who really shot the Kennedy's to why there's a pyramid on a one dollar bill and suggest a mind-blowing truth.' *** The brilliant FOURTH BOOK of THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY, in which Albert Einstein and James Joyce are featured in the ultimate space/time detective story (with numerous appearances by Aleister Crowley). Much of it may be more true in many ways than a lot of so-called non-fiction on these obscure subjects! 'Filled with sex and violence in and out of time and space the three books of THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY are only partly works of the imagination. *** Wilson and Shea s now classic, highly intellectually entertaining romp through all manner of conspiracies, secret societies, and the occult. Minor wear to corners, lightest bit of rubbing, NEAR FINE CONDITION.

* Light wear, light curl & a few minor bends to corners, light wear to outer joints, light rubbing, o/w VERY GOOD CONDITION. Thick octavo (8 by 5 1/4 by 2 inch thick) softcover. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time - from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill - and suggest a mind-blowing truth.': 5.5 x 8 in.: 805 pages. Filled with sex and violence - in and out of time and space - the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination.

Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big - but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective.

Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. KB#018019: Covers and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for light creasing of lower front cover corner).

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea