Oh boy. As mentioned before, I’m doing some background reading for a friend who has a fantasy role-playing campaign involving Nazis and the occult. This book is part of that program. I’m almost afraid to be seen with the thing. Author Peter Moon’s has several basic premises:


• Montauk, Long Island, is the center of a vast government/occult conspiracy;


• Any words that sound similar are evidence of a occult connection (thus “horse” and “horoscope” and “Horus” irrefutably show that Genghis Kahn, who rode a horse, was actually carrying on Ancient Egyptian astrological traditions);


• Any people who ever had the remotest contact with each other are involved in the conspiracy. With this later technique the book manages to link Alaric the Goth, Madame Blavatsky, Henri Coanda, Alastair Crowley, George Bush, H.P. Lovecraft, Adolf Hitler, Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Michael Faraday, Joseph Stillwell, Yul Brynner, William of Orange, Ramses II, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and just about everybody else.


As an example, “Montauk” incorporates the syllable “Mon”, which is also part of the name of King Mongkut of Siam, who was played on the stage and screen by Yul Brynner, who was the favorite movie actor of the author’s friend’s mother, which friend was also the college roommate of Mark Hamill. Oddly, although their connection was revealed during a psychic reading, neither the friend or Mr. Hamill remember being roommates, but this is easily explained by Government mind manipulation in the case of the friend and Mr. Hamill’s replacement by a double to prevent him from revealing that the movie The Philadelphia Experiment II was based on true events. The observation that Mr. Hamill had no detectable association with the movie is proof of the conspiracy, as is the fact that one of the producers of the movie has the first name “Mark”.


Really.


In my thrill-crazed youth, I had a thankfully short fascination with word association; equally weird friends (who will all deny it, which is proof it’s true) would come up with random word pairs and attempt to string them out into some sort of rational story. I remember vague details of a string that started with the word “sauerkraut” and ended up with a world domination scheme. The only segments I can recall (suggesting, ominously, that the plan was successful and the CIA has erased most of my memories of it) is that it involved electroplating sauerkraut to substitute for Christmas tree tinsel. Oh, and I think the Golden Gate Bridge was involved somehow. But I was not even remotely in the same league as Peter Moon. ( )

Peter Moon versucht hier auch mal sich selber als Autor zu betätigen. In der Montauk-Reihe war er ja nur als Verleger tätig. In diesen Buch sind viele neue Gedankengänge zu finden. Lesenswert alle mal, aber dann bitte die Englische Version, die Deutsche wurde im viele Seiten zensiert! ( )