>there's a book called Foccault's Pendulum, which is half of why

By Umberto Eco - he also wrote The Name of the Rose.

Both fantastic books.

I have a 3rd book by him that I never got around to reading... Travels in Hyperreality I think - nonfiction, essays.

>secrets and secret societies, and specifically the Knights of the
>Templar.

Actually that's just "Knights Templar".

BTW, have you ever read anything by Robert Anton Wilson? Most famous for his fiction - he coauthored The Illuminatus! Trilogy, wrote The Schroedinger's Cat Trilogy, etc, but he has a number of non-fiction books too. He's one of my favorites.

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