Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Reshaped the World

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Detailed and impeccably researched. Eye-opening' GUARDIAN

Punchy and well-reported. Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story' NEW YORK TIMES
'The expert on Americas right-wing fringe With kidnappings, murders, and Satanic rituals, this is a story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it Atlantic

For the followers of QAnon, the idea that Donald Trump was anointed by God to stop a depraved deep state government that sexually abuses, kills and eats children is an unquestionable fact. But how did a conspiracy theory from the dark side of the internet convince millions across the world to believe the unbelievable Who are these people And more importantly, what do they want

Investigative journalist Will Sommer dives head-first into QAnon: the great American conspiracy with global consequences. With first-hand access to leading figures in the Q movement, Sommer examines how the internet has radicalised politics, threatened democracy, and inspired insurrection and assassination, to show how we got here and how we can chart a path out.

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Punchy and well-reported Sommer is the perfect person to tell this story. He traces the rise of lawless message boards like 8chan, he profiles the key players, he chronicles QAnons influence on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, he sneaks into QAnon rallies, he analyzes Republican reactions to the blight in their fields, and he breathes deep of the madness, while staying blissfully sane himself New York Times

Sommer emerges to offer a close examination of the rise and continued presence of QAnon on the US political landscape. Detailed and impeccably researched, Trust the Plan is essentially a crash course on a volatile and vocal segment of the US population Guardian

Will Sommer has established himself as the expert on Americas right-wing fringe. Now hes exploring the damage that Donald Trump and the QAnon theorists who adore him have wreaked on the country. With kidnappings, murders, and Satanic rituals, this is a story so bizarre, only Will Sommer could report it The Atlantic

Will Sommer all but invented serious cultural reporting on the far right, inhabiting the worst corners of the internet so that the rest of us could understand them, and his new book on QAnon serves as a vital road map to one of the strangest and most disturbing movements of modern politics. Writing with insight, empathy, and historical expertise, Will masterfully documents how a random anonymous internet post on Reddit in 2017 rose up and swallowed the Republican Party Garrett Graff, author of Watergate: A New History

This is an absolutely fascinating and deeply troubling book. Rage-inducing and heartbreaking, its a rigorously researched, energetically written examination of a phenomenon laughed off for too long as fringe silliness Booklist

Author Bio

Will Sommer is a tech reporter for the Daily Beast. He previously worked as a campaign editor at the Hill, and as a political columnist for Washington City Paper. He lives in Washington, DC.