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He’d been running the most feared operation in the medieval world for 25 years. Now he was bored as fuck.

That’s where we begin.

This is the prologue to Hasan i-Sabah: The Founding of the Sultanate of Baboob — a historical novel about the man who hijacked a branch of Islam, built an unassailable fortress in the mountains of Persia, and created a community so devoted that his enemies called them the Assassins.

This book is special for more than a few reasons.

I am dropping the audiobook prelude for all of my subscribers. You don’t want to miss this. There are secrets being revealed in this text and in the subscriber sections of these posts. Valuable secrets. Things that will translate into this world. You really can’t afford not to be a paid subscriber.

Hasan-i Sabbah is in the news whether the news knows it or not. Every time you see a headline about Iran, you’re looking at the long shadow of the world he shaped.

This audiobook is the real story — or as close to it as fiction can get.

New episodes drop regularly. Start here, or get the full book on Amazon.

Baoism grew from seeds Hasan planted. Learn more at baoism.org

For those of you who have been paying attention, I spent some time in the South of France smoking weed and tripping out with an old lady with fiery red hair and a Dream Machine in her French Country House. Once I was at the place where reality was distinctly distorted she parked me upstairs in the guest bedroom where William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin built a dream machine for her. The record it was playing was Burroughs voice talking about Hasan I Sabah and nothing is forbidden and everything is allowed and discussing control systems and the mechanisms of societal control.

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I guess it locked in somewhere. A decade later I decided to write the missing biography of Hasan i Sabah. While I was writing it, Burroughs voice echoed in my brain.