Laurence O’Bryan, author of The Manhattan Puzzle, picks his choice of conspiracy novels to keep you awake.
* Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge. The long awaited new Pynchon novel. The love him/hate him unpredictable “great” American novelist’s rollercoaster ride of New York slang, bloggers, hackers and code monkeys. Then people start dying.
* John Macgregor’s Propinquity. This 1986 novel sold poorly, but has uncanny parallels with The Da Vince Code. It has a secret tomb of a medieval carrier of gnostic illumination. And under Westminster Abbey a tomb contains documents on the life of a female avatar of a feminine divine power.
* Robert Shea’s The Illuminatus Trillogy. Lashings of sex and violence and cover-ups galore including the real reason why there’s a pyramid on the dollar bill. A cult classic.
* Scott Mariani’s The Alchemist’s Secret. Scott’s under-appreciated thriller has the elixir or life, alchemists, Cathar stronholds and a stunning woman. What more could you want?
I hope you enjoy them. If you have recommendations for novels we should be reading, let us know in the comments below.
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