Them: Adventures with Extremists
02 May 2024Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Funny and compulsively readable’ – Louis Theroux
What if a tiny, shadowy 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...
Details
02 May 2024336 pages
9781035039036Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A funny, superbly controlled account of Ronson's wanderings through the wonderland of fanaticism and delusion . . . The result is high comedy.New Statesman
Often entertaining, more often disturbing . . . Ronson has gotten closer to these people than any journalist I can think of.The New York Times
Ronson has a deft, ironic touch and a brilliant way with scene-setting and direct speech.The Guardian
The strength of Ronson's book is that it reminds us not only that extremists are weird but also that their fantasies take sustenance from the real world.Sunday Telegraph
