“The first time I thought about conspiracies was when The X-Files came out,” writes the author of this book, American researcher P. Knight. “It seemed to me that this film was specially launched for me, as if hinting that I would think of something very important.” In the end, Knight decided to collect and analyze all the topics most familiar to the mass consciousness: the Kennedy assassination, panic around global epidemics, the New World Order and others. His book became a kind of guide to “conspiracy theories”, an attempt to understand conspiracy theories. It, according to Knight, is an inevitable response to the increasing globalization of the world, which causes a feeling of anxiety and a desire to understand what is really happening.