Picador Collection

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'' . . .

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

My worryingly paradoxical thought process could be summarized thus: Thank God I don''t believe in the secret rulers of the world. Imagine what the secret rulers of the world might do to me if I did.

What if a tiny, shadow 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.

''This book is chilling and hilarious by turns.'' - Independent

''A funny and compulsively readable picaresque adventure through a paranoid shadow world.'' - Louis Theroux, Guardian