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Iain Banks' novel The Business
Iain Banks' novel The Business is set within a
fictional and highly secretive corporate body, evolved
from a cartel of merchants in ancient Rome, who secretly
run many of the worlds multinational corporations as
fronts. The novel is set against the backdrop of 'The
Company's' attempt to buy leadership of a fictional
Himalayan principality in order to gain a seat on the
UN.
The popular 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
draws on conspiracy theories involving the Roman
Catholic Church, Opus Dei and the Priory of Sion.
In Grant Morrison's comic series The Invisibles, both
the protagonists and their adversaries are members of
competing conspiratorial groups. The series references a
number of conspiracy theories, including those
concerning the Illuminati and the Knights Templar, as
well as UFO conspiracy theories which became popular
during the 1990s.
Australian author Matthew Reilly's novel Scarecrow
deals with the Majestic 12 as the conspirators of an
international war. His other novels deal with such
conspiracy theories as the competition between different
areas of the Department of Defense and the secret
breakdown of NATO.
Contemporary authors who have used elements of
conspiracy theory in their work include Margaret Atwood,
William S. Burroughs, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, James
Ellroy, Joseph Heller, Robert Ludlum and James Phelan.
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