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Them

Adventures with Extremists

What if a tiny, shadowy 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.

A Sunday Times bestseller and the book that launched Jon Ronson’s inimitable career, 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’ . . .

  Excerpt: Beset by Lizards   Excerpt: Who Pulls the Strings?   Excerpt: The Secret Rulers of the World (PDF)

Praise for Them

‘Funny and compulsively readable.’
–Louis Theroux (read full review)

‘Chilling and hilarious . . . Ronson’s trademark laid-back attitude is a delight.’
–The Independent

‘A funny, superbly controlled account of Ronson’s wanderings through the wonderland of fanaticism and delusion . . . The result is high comedy.’
—New Statesman

‘Often entertaining, more often disturbing . . . Ronson has gotten closer to these people than any journalist I can think of.’
—The New York Times

‘Ronson has a deft, ironic touch and a brilliant way with scene-setting and direct speech.’
—The Guardian

‘Them will hardly make you feel better about the state of the world. It will remind you that extremists are human beings, that their leaders are hardly evil geniuses, that they are sometimes just buffoons.’
—BookReporter (read full review)

‘The strength of Ronson’s book is that it reminds us not only that extremists are weird but also that their fantasies take sustenance from the real world.’
—Sunday Telegraph

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