ROBERT ANTON
WILSON
The Eye in the Pyramid, the first volume of the Illuminatus! trilogy, is a bold, delightful novel in three installments, a precursor to such popular works as Foucault’s Pendulum, The Da Vinci Code, V for Vendetta, The X-Files and Lost.
The story begins with an explosion at the offices of a far-left magazine in New York City, and the disappearance of its publisher. Two detectives begin their investigation and, as they unravel the mystery, they come up against a different view of the story behind the events. Who are the Illuminati after all? Through testimonies and documents, beliefs and scientism, everything turns upside down.
Contemporary events, real or imagined, form the background of the strangest version, which is also the most plausible and interesting. At the end of the book the question remains: is history ultimately a product of conspiracies? Why the Kennedy assassination, a golden yellow submarine, lost Atlantis, Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, anarchists, flower children and the 60s, rock music and the Arabs, the American dollar and marijuana, World War III, Freud, Marx, sex, magic and more play a major role in the most paranoid novel on the Illuminati ever written?
