"The part about the Hookers was a lie."

The Men Who Stare at Goats, based on Jon Ronson's account of one of the US military's strangest black ops project, looks to be much funnier and absurd than the source material would suggest.

Based on research into the First Earth Battalion (and various other projects involving belief in magical thinking) the book is a trip down the rabbit hole of the American military-industrial complex at its weirdest.

The cast alone makes it worth checking out.