* Light wear, light curl & a few minor bends to corners, light wear to outer joints, light rubbing, o/w VERY GOOD CONDITION. Thick octavo (8 by 5 1/4 by 2 inch thick) softcover.
They tackle all the cover-ups of our time - from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill - and suggest a mind-blowing truth.": 5.5 x 8 in.: 805 pages. Filled with sex and violence - in and out of time and space - the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. Saul Goodman knows he's stumbled onto something big - but even he can't guess how far into the pinnacles of power this conspiracy of evil has penetrated. Now his offices have been bombed, he's missing, and the case has landed in the lap of a tough, cynical, streetwise New York detective. Joseph Malik, editor of a radical magazine, had snooped into rumors about an ancient secret society that was still alive and kicking. KB#018019: Covers and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (except for light creasing of lower front cover corner). BibliographyĪll titles can be found on Robert Shea's Goodreads page.Soft Cover. His son, Mike Shea, has a few copies of his father's novel Lady Yang (completed but unpublished), a tragic story of an idealistic empress of medieval China. tracing the fate of the survivors of the Black Hawk War in 19th century Illinois. His last book (published) was the Native American tale Shaman (1991). His (non-fiction) history of Plaza del Lago, From No Man's Land to Plaza Del Lago (1987), traces the locale's wild and woolly days in the early part of the century, when the area belonged to neither town and was lawless. It's a book of love, intrigue, and suspense during the time of the Crusades. On his own, Shea went on to write historical novels, including Shike (1981) set in medieval Japan, All Things Are Lights (1986) a story that entwines the fate of Cathars of southern France with the occult traditions of Courtly Love and the troubadours, and what probably is his most underrated work - The Saracen, a book published in two parts in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud Ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon De Gobignon. In the 60's he edited the Playboy Forum where he met Robert Anton Wilson, with whom he collaborated on Illuminatus! After Illuminatus!Īfter publishing Illuminatus!, Bob left Playboy to become a full time novelist.
Robert Joseph Shea attended Manhattan Prep, Manhattan College and Rutgers University and worked as a magazine editor in New York and Los Angeles.
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