Illuminatus! (The Eye in the Pyramid & Leviathan) by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1973. Dell. 1st Printing. Volumes 1 and 3.

The Eye in the Pyramid
The Illuminati: inside joke - or hellish conspiracy? Were they harmless cranks? Or a hellish conspiracy of psychotic lost souls hidden for centuries, unleashing a weird evil on an unsuspecting, defenceless world? It was Saul Goodman's lousy luck to pick up the trail from some underground memos in a bombed-out office. It was the heavy case he always dreaded. So it was that one tired cop set out on a wild, bizarre quest for a secret society that spanned centuries, crossed continents, drugged generations - and stooped to any depth of degradation to self-destruct a whole world.. In the far-out vein of Vonnegut's humour and Castaneda's mind-games, here is Illuminatus - part 1 - the closest thing to a cosmic kaleidoscope between soft covers. Or a bone-freezing blueprint of disaster to come?

Leviathan
Psychedelic Supermen? A big bad joke? Or was Illuminatus an awful, awesome truth - a hellish powerful secret cult that had striven down 10,000 years to enslave the human race in a psychotic nightmare? Tough cop Saul Goodman took over the case and even he learned to dread the ancient core of concentrated evil, this black-magical band poising the planet for the Third World War. Then Goodman himself disappeared. The Illuminati brainwashed him and returned him to the world as their creature. Or so they thought..here is the shattering climax of Illuminatus, the mind-exploding trilogy that has enthralled millions. You will never forget this ultimate reading trip to the outer limits of the contemporary nightmare.