What Secrets Connect The Trilateral Commission, Nazis, Freemasons and the Ancient Mysteries?

Whoever controls the secrets has the knowledge ... and knowledge is power!

New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist Jim Marrs exposes the hidden history that connects modern secret societies through older organizations back to humankind's prehistory. From the secret society members behind recent warfare, Hitler, the American Civil War and the French Revolution to the creation of man as recounted in ancient Sumerian tablets, Marrs examines the world's most closely guarded secrets. Here is the evidence that the real rulers of the world — not the politicians or corporate administrators — start and stop wars, manipulate stock markets and interest rates, maintain class distinctions and even censor the news. Impeccably researched, this masterful synthesis of information long hidden from the public reveals the people and organizations that rule all our lives.

A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Mr. Marrs earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of North Texas in 1966 and attended Graduate School at Texas Tech in Lubbock for two years more. He has worked for several Texas newspapers, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where beginning in 1968 he served as police reporter. Mr. Marrs then became a general assignments reporter covering stories locally and in Europe and the Middle East. After a leave of absence to serve with a Fourth Army intelligence unit during the Vietnam War, he became military and aerospace writer for the newspaper and an investigative reporter. Since 1980, Mr. Marrs has been a free-lance writer and public relations consultant. He also produced a rural weekly newspaper along with a monthly tourism tabloid, a cable television show and several videos.

Since 1976, Mr. Marrs has taught a course on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at the University of Texas at Arlington. In1989, his book, Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, was published to critical acclaim and within three years had gone into an eighth printing in both hardbound and softbound editions. Crossfire reached the New York Times Paperback Non-Fiction Best Seller list in mid-February1992 and remained there for more than six weeks. His book became a basis for the Oliver Stone film JFK. Mr. Marrs served as a chief consultant for both the film's screenplay and production.

Beginning in 1992, Mr. Marrs spent three years researching and completing a nonfiction book on the psychic phenomenon known as remote viewing only to have it mysteriously canceled as it was going to press in the summer of 1995. Within two months, the story of military-developed remote viewing broke nationally in the Washington Post after the CIA held a press conference admitting to their psychic studies.

In May, 1997, Marrs' in-depth investigation of UFOs, Alien Agenda, was published by HarperCollins Publishers. In less than two months, Alien Agenda had garnered many positive reviews and gone into an eighth printing. In 1998, Mr. Marrs was a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the Annual International UFO Congress and the Annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference. Publisher's Weekly described Alien Agenda as "the most entertaining and complete overview of flying saucers and their crew in years." The paperback edition was released in mid-1998.

In early 2000, HarperCollins published Rule by Secrecy, in which Mr. Marrs traced the hidden history that connects modern secret societies to the Ancient Mysteries.

An award-winning journalist, Mr. Marrs is listed both in Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in America. Mr. Marrs has won several writing and photography awards including the Aviation/Aerospace Writer's Association's National Writing Award and Newsmaker of the Year Award from the Fort Worth Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. In 1993, Mr. Marrs received Freedom Magazine's Human Rights Leadership Award.

Mr. Marrs has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, This Morning America, Geraldo, Montell Williams, Today and The Larry King and Art Bell radio programs along with numerous national and regional radio and TV shows. He is a former president of the Press Club of Fort Worth and a current member of the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the Investigative Reporters and Editors. Mr. Marrs also produced Texas Roundup for cable televisions, two popular videos on Lee Harvey Oswald and has written several television, video and film scripts and treatments.