Livre d'Or

He's a British journalist, very interested in conspiracies and the like, and writes a very similar style of book to Spufford (non-fic but lightly fictionalised and very readable). I think his best is _The Men Who Stare At Goats_, which is about the US Army's attempts to use the paranormal. (I think this got filmed? I don't know if the film's any good.)