Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones co-writing book
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist, radio show host and publisher of the extremist right-wing website InfoWars, is co-writing a book with “The Game” author Neil Strauss, CNN reports.
The network obtained a proposal sent to major publishers for a book to be titled “The Secret History of the Modern World & the War for the Future.”
The proposal promises that reading the book “will be like the moment you first discovered sex.”
Which isn’t necessarily good. One Twitter user, Jeff Defour, noted, “I discovered sex huddled around a science book in the back of my fourth-grade classroom. I doubt it’ll be like that.” Another, Mara O’Maude, joked, “awkward and scary and unfulfilling?”
The book proposal was sent to some publishers by United Talent Agency, according to CNN. However, an unnamed representative of UTA told CNN that it had been circulated without internal approval. A representative of the agency confirmed to The Times, “UTA does not represent this book.”
The book proposal leverages Jones’ reputation for spreading conspiracies as a catchy brand. Conspiracy theories promoted by his website Infowars include the false claim that the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax.
“[T]here is a conspiracy that, no matter who you are, you have to admit is true,” the proposal reads. “There is a war for your mind. A war to make you docile. A war to make you a sheep. A war to take away your initiative, your freedom, and your control over your own life.”
The Austin, Texas-based Jones has for years been a controversial figure on the far right. In addition to his claim about Sandy Hook, he has asserted that the Sept. 11 attacks were “an inside job” and that Barack Obama was “the global head of Al-Qaeda.” Jones has been praised by Donald Trump, who during the 2016 presidential campaign called his reputation “amazing.”
Strauss is best known for his bestselling 2005 book “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,” which chronicles his friendship with a “pick-up artist” who goes by the assumed name “Mystery” and shares his society’s lessons for dating — and manipulating — women.
Strauss has previously co-written books with rocker Marilyn Manson, the band Mötley Crüe and pornographic actress Jenna Jameson.
The proposal for the Jones book claims that it will be “a classic” and that Jones will publicize the book, once published.
“I’m open to as many book signings as you’d like me to do, as well as impactful promotional outlets,” Jones writes in the proposal. “The few interviews I have done previously have made headline news. Be it accurate or not, people love writing about me. But most important to me, besides the months of promotion that I’m looking forward to doing, I’m writing this book for the long road. I am putting a lot of work into it, distilling my knowledge, philosophy, and mission, into some 120,000 words.”
The book apparently has yet to find a publisher.