Robert Shea

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Bob Shea and I used to go out for drinks every Friday evening after work and solve all of the problems of the world over a few Bloody Marys. We were talking about all of these kooky conspiracy theories and Shea said, “Why don’t we write a book about all the craziest conspiracy theories.” And eventually the Illuminatus trilogy developed out of that.

– from a 1988 interview, RAW speaking with Lewis Shiner, Texas Trajectories