THEM: ADVENTURES WITH EXTREMISTS – JON RONSON

Them is an eye-opening, outrageously funny exploration of extremism, which makes both author and reader think twice about the looking-glass world of us and them . . . A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson s inimitable career. My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don t believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did. What if a tiny, shadow elite rule the world from a secret room? In Them Jon Ronson sets out to find this room, with the help of the extremists – Islamic fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen – that believe in it. Along the way, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses international CEOs and politicians participate in a bizarre pagan ritual in the forests of northern California. This book is chilling and hilarious by turns. – Independent A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world. – Louis Theroux, Guardian