Book description
Jon Ronson is well known for some downright crazy escapades, and these
three bestselling books encompass his most madcap adventures. THEM
charts Jon's discovery that extremists - Islamic fundamentalists,
neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen - all have one oddly similar belief: that a
tiny, shadowy elite rule the world from a secret room. And so Jon sets
out to locate that room. Chased by men in dark glasses and unmasked as a
Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, Jon's journey is creepy as
well as comic, and perhaps the extremists are on to something . . .
The Men Who Stare at Goats tells the unbelievable story of the First
Earth Battalion, established by the US Army in 1979 as a secret unit,
they defied all known military practice, and even the laws of physics,
in their belief that a soldier could become invisible, pass through
walls and kill goats just by staring at them. And, as Jon discovers,
they really weren't joking. The Psychopath Test sees Jon set out on an
utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness. He meets
psychopaths, those whose lives have been touched by madness and those
whose job it is to diagnose it, from whom Jon learns the art of
psychopath-spotting. And it soon becomes clear that madness could indeed
be at the heart of everything . . . Often funny, sometimes chilling
and always thought-provoking, these books combine Jon's trademark
humour, charm and investigative incision whilst asking some very serious
questions. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast - my God, he is
funny' Observer
Jon Ronson is an award-winning writer and documentary maker. He is
the author of three bestsellers: Them: Adventures with
Extremists, The Men Who Stare at Goats and The
Psychopath Test, and two collections, Out of the Ordinary:
True Tales of Everyday Craziness and What I Do: More True
Tales. He lives in London.
