Conspiracies was one of my favorites too, although my first Wilson book was The Tomb, seems like most of people I know read Conspiracies first. I remember reading The Tomb for the first time, and flying through it like there was no tomorrow. Right after that I drove up to library, unfortunatly this was before Conspiracies was out, and grabbed the next book by Wilson. Got to tell you if you havn't read Select yet... well all I can say is WOW!! I remember the creepy bookcover, yes I know you can't judge a book by a cover, but it was so intriguing. Well, needless to say Select had just the same calibar as Tomb all the way through. Hope you get around to Select too, and enjoy the RJ series!