Winner of the Special Achievement in Nonfiction Award from the PEN Los Angeles Center, Architects of Fear developed something of a cult following and for awhile was becoming scarce. There was only a single printing, in hardcover, of which about 3,000 copies were sold or distributed to reviewers. The remaining stock was destroyed by the publisher. There never was a paperback edition.
With the advent of Internet book-selling, however, used copies began appearing for sale on Alibris and Amazon. Amazon will also now let you search the text.
In my essay, On the Trail of the Illuminati: A Journalist's Search for The Conspiracy That Rules the World (originally published in the anthology Secrets of Angels and Demons), I tell the weird tale of how my book was pirated and transmogrified by a right-wing Japanese nationalist for use in his own bizarre conspiracy theory. (As I understand it, I am depicted in the introduction as an agent of a conspiracy to deny that there are conspiracies. The essay is now included as an introduction to a revised, updated version of Architects of Fear and is available at Amazon.