Papadaki's writing is episodic, narrating the stories of the book's twin heroes and punctuating them with brilliant literary readings that cross-reference unacknowledged sources and hidden collaborators. ...while the book lays out its evidence fully it only just hints at its larger, more substantial argument. ...in keeping with a standard in American academic writing, it does not clearly mark patterns or dynamic turns. In the 1920s and 1930s, Saint-Yves's work became a recruiting tool for leaders of the business world, military, arts, and academia to join in the political project of creating a single world-governing body aimed at destroying not just anarchy and communism but all radical democratic forces. ...Sikelianos, through this direct appropriation of Saint-Yves's theories and occultist framework, placed himself in the company of the national socialists and fascists of his era (159).