
- 380 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Aleister Crowley is best known today as a founding father of modern occultism. His wide, hypnotic eyes peer at us from the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and his influence can be found everywhere in popular culture.
Crowley, also known as the Great Beast, has been the subject of several biographies, some painting him as a misunderstood genius, others as a manipulative charlatan. None of them have looked seriously at his career as an agent of British Intelligence.
Using documents gleaned from British, American, French, and Italian archives, Secret Agent 666 sensationally reveals that Crowley played a major role in the sinking of the Lusitania, a plot to overthrow the government of Spain, the thwarting of Irish and Indian nationalist conspiracies, and the 1941 flight of Rudolf Hess.
Author Richard B. Spence argues that Crowley—in his own unconventional way—was a patriotic Englishman who endured years of public vilification in part to mask his role as a secret agent.
The verification of the Great Beast's participation in the twentieth century's most astounding government plots will likely blow the minds of history buff s and occult aficionados alike.
Author Richard B. Spence can be seen on various documentaries on the History Channel and is a consultant for Washington, DC's International Spy Museum. He is also the author of Trust No One: The Secret World of Sidney Reilly (Feral House).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Six Degrees of Aleister Crowley
- Prologue: The Doomed Ship
- Chapter One: God, Country, King and Lodge
- Chapter Two: The Moveable Beast
- Chapter Thre: An Irishman in New York
- Chapter Four: Sleeping with the Enemy
- Chapter Five: Return to the Lusitania
- Chapter Six: A Party at the Statue of Liberty
- Chapter Seven: There and Back Again
- Chapter Eight: Shifting Sands
- Chapter Nine: The Wandering Magician
- Chapter Ten: American End Game
- Chapter Eleven: The Unwelcome Guest
- Chapter Twelve: Into the Reich
- Chapter Thirten: A Small Circle of Friends
- Chapter Fourten: That Old Black Magick
- Epilogue
- Index