The Nine (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, Book 1) (Sinister Forces, 1)

Firstly, I feel it’s important to say that Mr. Levenda is a writer. He writes with a crisp & fluid prose that makes an already interesting subject all the more compelling. He is also a big picture thinker who is able to connect a melange of meticulous info into a cohesive whole to give the reader something to chew on. Without getting into too many specifics, The section on psychological warfare in chapter 4 should be a revelation to Americans as well as the global populace in 2022 in lieu of the bio weapon and all its tentacles. Particularity a heavily manipulated narrative (on both sides) that continues to leave normies and many ‘truthers’ wading through the morass trying to put fragments of info and timelines in order. This book then, for me, has been an exercise in diligence and dot connecting in order to see a more comprehensive whole. I’m excited to get into the rest of the series.This is one author I would love to have over for dinner and a whiskey to talk about these abstruse topics that have been largely overlooked but end up making perfect sense, leaving you hungry for more. He has a few old but good interviews on YT on the byte show as well. This book is a gem in my modern journalism section. Totes recommended!

I have Amazon's recommendation system to thank for introducing me to the important work of Peter Levenda. Certainly, I would not have sought out this work otherwise. But, I am grateful that I did. Well done, Amazon!This book is well written, thoroughly documented, and important. The rather bizarre foreward by Jim Hougan contributes nothing at all to the corpus of the book and can be left unread with no context or meaning being lost. Once Levenda does get going in this book, it is relentlessly fascinating. Levenda portrays much of the "dark side" of American political history with style, class, and a proper sense of wonder.I was particularly interested in the connections Levenda makes to the Nazi and Satanic influences in such CIA initiatives as MK/Ultra and the Kennedy assassinations. Reading this very interesting and well written account motivates me to read the rest of this series and the author's earlier book on Nazi involvement with the occult. It seems that satanism and Nazism have had a more profound influence on modern history than mainstream expositors would otherwise acknowlege.The book rates four stars instead of five, from my perspective, for two reasons. The author, apparently a fallen away Catholic, has a bias against Christianity that almost at times borders on nastiness. And the book, though spell binding throughout, ends not with a bang but with a whimper. We are left with the distinct impression that the author's main purpose in the last chapter was to set the stage for the next book in the series. Yet, I am now prepared to order that next item. So, perhaps the sneaky little plan is effective. In any case, I strongly recommend this very interesting book to anyone who would understand a bit better the occult aspects of American political history.

Lots of fanciful notions and wild speculations that made it hard to get through this book. I couldn’t even stick around long enough to see if he ever got to the point. I could not follow his line of thinking because in between every other paragraph he was quoting the necronomicon. Mixing historical events with known fictional stories and trying to form some sort of connection is exactly why people do not take conspiracy theories seriously.What I did learn however is that America’s current problem, its inability to perceive accurately, observe and use critical thinking skills to make inform judgements about life and the world around them is rooted in its long history of religious zelots and mass mystical hysteria. As outlined in this book the American Mind in those times was extremely immature and adolescent in the environment in which it found itself especially when it came to serious spiritual metaphysical topics like ones the author attempts to handle here but clumsily mistreats. Example H.P. Lovecraft’s Necronomicon, which is quoted way to much for my taste, is really just an expression of the deep seeded racial angst felt by most Anglos who coming into a foreign land surronded by “strange” people with whom they had to live along side challenging there dreams of ‘White’ Utopia excuse me “Land of Puritans” which would later be known as Gods Country. Now that statement as controversy and uneasy as it is is what this book is suppose to be about. Its the kind of Uncomfortability i expect from a book labeled Sinister Forces. But alas its just a little sugar coated piece of fiction trying to pass itself of as something its not. The Author is smart and educated which is exactly why the lengthy criticism. It inauthentic but then again he knows his audience so maybe he is actually brilliant. Anyhow he was on the History Channel many times and we all know the downward spiral they have been on. If you want a serious no hold bar approach about some secret occult stuff that will really open your eyes then you need to read Tracy Twyman last book. I mean heck she literally died after writing it. What does that tell you? This guy got a couple of features on the History Channel.

While coherent and interesting, it seems this book has been edited but not properly formatted - the font continually changes size, sometimes even mid-word. It makes reading it annoying and frustrating, and frankly it taints the professionalism of the document.Apart from that, it's informative about certain niches of the overarching Grand Conspiracy Theory that is modern U.S. politics, but still not as detailed as it could be.I'm not sure how many books are in this series (three?), but it'd be nice to have it all in one ebook volume, with the chapter-threads woven together rather than left undone and sprawled across various editions. So that the chapters/threads actually are concluded, rather than ...fizzling out and moving onto the next topic.As long as the text is all the same size, that is...Informative and well-written (unlike a lot of books in this genre), I'd still recommend it if you've read the blurb and it seems like your kinda thing, but I'm hesitant to invest in the next volume, purely due to the formatting errors mentioned above.

I want to give this a 5/5, but the formatting is disconcerting. On my Kindle AND on my Android Kindle App, the size of the font is never ever consistent. It changes over the course of a paragraph. Is the print version like this? I hope not. That said, I read the Kindle version during a back-packing trip, and found the content to be intriguing. All I can say after reading it is, man, are we ever messed up...

This work is Levenda`s realization that a matrix of politics and violence is incapable of explaining the demented century that shuddered to an end in Manhattan, not so long ago. What is needed is an additional dimension, and that dimension is the occult...Even if you already researched a lot in the realm of the occult conspitorial view of history, let me guarantee you Lavenda will reveal details that are new to and helps to connect more dots to complete the picture

Klasse Buch sehr informativ! Kann man nur weiterempfehlen und hoffen das es viele Leute lesen und sehen wie Geschichte gemacht wird.

Difficult to describe. Starts off slowly, but the post WWII CIA and occult material is morbidly fascinating. Well-written and depth of author's thought evident throughout. The odd e-book formatting issue (Kindle app on iPad) didn't bother me too much. Recommended.