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16 January 2018

Government Conspiracy Fiction Books That Changed The World

By Ann Lee


For a book that is packed with excitement, nonstop action, and a main character who is heroic as they come, the classic novel The Thirty-Nine Steps is a great pick for a revolutionary paranoid thriller. Author John Buchan might not have known just how many more government conspiracy fiction books he would feature his character of Richard Hannay in when he published this story in 1915. In the character's debut novel, he finds himself on the run in a series of unlikely situations.

Some of the best tales about conspiracies take place on a small scale, rather than being part of an international plot for world domination. This small-scale approach was used effectively in Dashiell Hammett's "Nightmare Town". This short story was released in 1924 and is about a small town in Arizona with a plot to commit insurance fraud that turns deadly.

The Ministry of Fear is a book that came out in 1943 and was written by Graham Greene. The backdrop of World War II and the Nazi regime made many readers very interested in this book when it was first published. It had to do with the way Nazis would blackmail individuals into cooperating with them.

The Manchurian Candidate is a novel that has been adapted to film twice, but many fans would say that neither of these adaptations can compare to the original book. Richard Condon's groundbreaking novel was published in 1959 when many people in the United States were concerned about communism. His book involves a brainwashing plot to make an unsuspecting man into an assassin.

Whenever a tragic or controversial even happens in the public's eye, there are always those who are prone to make speculations whenever there is any level of uncertainty in the facts. John F. Kennedy's assassination was certainly one of these events, and Winter Kills is a definitive book about the events and the theories. Richard Condon's story explores what happened as well as what conspirators think happened.

Many people have heard about The Illuminatus! Trilogy because of the huge impact it has had on society. Although the trilogy is now usually printed as one book, they were published separately with the first novel coming out in 1969, and the last one in 1971. The time when the books were coming out was a historic and revolutionary time, and the book reflected this with the various genres and subjects courageously explored.

The Crying Lot 49 came out in 1966, and it is one of the shorter pieces by the author Thomas Pynchon. What this story lacks in length, however, it makes up for in the quality of the narrative and story being told. The story, filled with cultural references to the Beatles and other icons of the 60s, is about a mail service's plot that is over 500 years old.

For a book that breaks all boundaries and can change the reader's outlook on life completely, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is an incredible read. In this novel, he goes everywhere from high to low class, propriety to obscenity, and covers a wealth of complex information. This is not a very easy read because of the long character list and heavy topics, but it a great piece to make the reader think.




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