Is there a secret room from which a small group of people rules the world? Are several prominent world leaders, including the British royal family and George W. Bush, actually descended from an extraterrestial race of lizards? Jon Ronson explores the world of extremists in his very funny, hard-to-put-down book, Them: Adventures with Extremists.

Ronson, a British journalist and documentary filmmaker, follows around an extremist Muslim in London, famed conspiracy theorist David Icke, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, and several other extremists and conspiracy theorists. He discovers that all of them have similar beliefs—that a small group of elites meet in secret and control the fate of the world. As Ronson follows these folks on their adventures and sees the world through their eyes, he starts to wonder whether some of them are on to something. Is he becoming one of “them”? Them: Adventures with Extremists is a fascinating glimpse into a world of conspiracy and paranoia. This book is addictive reading!