Illuminati 2: Deceit and Seduction (2010) by Henry Makow is a collection of 90 short essays arguing that a "satanic cult" known as the Illuminati is waging a covert war against humanity to establish a totalitarian world government. Makow contends that this group, which he describes as a central banking cartel, is destroying traditional civilization to enslave humanity. Illuminati 2 serves as a continuation of his previous work, Illuminati: The Cult that Hijacked the World (2009), further documenting what he perceives as the subversion and enslavement of mankind.