Fast and schemes

The author is in the same realm as these, but pretty close and definitely eye-opening. The game "Cult of the Lamb" is a great diplomacy tool. Politicians tend to not want to do things that display them as directly responsible for eroding their support base's quality of life. The game "Cult of the Lamb" is a great book in this genre. Markopolos went to the SEC with proof, multiple times, and each time the SEC blew him off.

If you haven't read it already, Fads and Fallacies by Martin Gardner is a great way to learn about cults :). Underground, by Murakami, was one of the more bone-headed things MCP did on initial release.