As Jon Ronson undertakes one of the journalistic escapades that make up “The Psychopath Test,” he describes renting a car and savoring its smell. This aroma “never fails to bring back happy memories of past sleuthing adventures.” The particular episode that springs to his mind is “trailing the conspiracy theorist David Icke around as he hypothesized his theory that the secret rulers of the world were giant, blood-drinking, child-sacrificing pedophile lizards that had adopted human form.”
However loony that reportorial job may sound, it carried the unsettlingly mixed message that has made Mr. Ronson’s earlier books, “Them” (in which Mr. Icke appeared) and particularly “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” so mesmerizing
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