The Plots of Men

<p>It's <span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>April 1934. Much of the world is still suffering from the carnage of the Great War while still reeling from the fallout and economic chaos created by the crash of Wall Street and the Great Depression. Why are Nazis Communists gangsters assassins spies lawyers a Jesuit alchemist a mystagogue and a spiritualist gathering in a city in the heart of America's heartland?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> Think Shea and Wilson's </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The Illuminatus Trilogy</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> Brown's </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Da Vinci Code</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> and Eco's </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Foucault's Pendulum</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> meet </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Happy Days</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Laverne and Shirley</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> with touches of Wilder's </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>The Cabalists</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> Gresham's </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Nightmare Alley</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> (the novel not the films) and </span><em style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)>Amsterdam</em><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> (the film not the city).</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> Has bank robber and Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger really been hired to provide security for a shadowy crime organization's looming secret meeting? Is Paul Khunrath a failed German jurist in the American Midwest to bury his recently murdered wife really there to obtain paintings intended as gifts to Germany's new Nazi Chancellor? Is Claire König a beautiful Eastern European assassin really in the Midwest to look for and possibly eliminate the source of recent multi-language publications of Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Will there be murders biological warfare poison Zeppelins bank robberies the Illuminati the Century of Progress voodoo shootouts the Three Stooges soma cemeteries old churches hidden caverns Rembrandt Old Fashioneds a Harley alchemy a séance art sausages Cathars rituals fish fries ghosts and more?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(68 68 68 1)> Only one way to find out.</span></p>