Books like In the Time of Madness by Richard Lloyd Parry

A chilling, factual account of the 1959 shotgun murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members were killed with no clear motive or clues.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

Michael Dobbs’s first high‑octane thriller, The Edge of Madness, weaves a tense drama around a nuclear power plant accident, diplomatic intrigue, and information warfare that spans the UK, US, China and Russia.

"A wild, astonishing novel (by arguably England's most accomplished young writer) about Manhattan and Hollywood in the 1930s, Mayan gods, and a CIA operation gone terribly wrong--and the Booker short-listed Ned Beauman's magnum opus thus far. In 1938, two rival expeditions descend on an ancient temple recently discovered in the jungles of Honduras, one intending to shoot a screwball comedy on location there, the other to disassemble the temple and ship it back to New York. A seemingly endless stalemate ensues, and twenty years later a rogue CIA agent sets out to exploit it for his own ends, unaware that the temple is a locus of conspiracies grander than anyone could ever have guessed. Shot through with insanity, conspiracy, ingenuity, and adventure, showcasing Beauman's anarchic humor, spectacular imagination, and riveting prose, Madness Is Better Than Defeat teases, absorbs, entertains, and dazzles in equal measure"--

A translation of the first volume (ka) of the autobiographical writings of the Himalayan saint and yogi Drukpa Kunley (1455–1529)