{"product_id":"9780440503064","title":"Masks of the Illuminati","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis American underground classic is a \u003cb\u003erollicking cosmic mystery \u003c\/b\u003efeaturing Albert Einstein and James Joyce as the ultimate space\/time detectives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One fateful evening in a suitably dark, beer-soaked Swiss rathskeller, a wild and obscure Irishman named James Joyce would become the drinking partner of an unknown physics professor called Albert Einstein. And on that same momentous night, Sir John Babcock, a terror-stricken young Englishman, would rush through the tavern door bringing a mystery that only the two most brilliant minds of the century could solve . . . or perhaps bringing only a figment of his imagination born of the paranoia of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An outrageous, raunchy ride through the twists and turns of mind and space, \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e runs amok with all our fondest conspiracy theories to show us the truth behind the laughter . . . and the laughter in the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eMasks of the Illuminati\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was astonished and delighted . . . Robert Anton Wilson managed to reverse every mental polarity in me, as if I had been pulled through infinity.”\u003cb\u003e—Philip K. Dick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “[Wilson is] erudite, witty, and genuinely scary.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A dazzling barker hawking tickets to the most thrilling tilt-a-whirls and daring loop-o-planes on the midway to a higher consciousness.”\u003cb\u003e—Tom Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Wilson is one of the most profound, important, scientific philosophers of this century—scholarly, witty, hip, and hopeful.”\u003cb\u003e—Timothy Leary\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Robert A. Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48035671539924,"sku":"9780440503064","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6a108134-37aa-4c65-a4fa-b14ef99a19c2.jpg?v=1780367601","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780440503064","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}