# Interlock *Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi* is a 2015 book by Patricia Goldstone, published by Counterpoint Press. It is the major book-length treatment of the artist [[Mark Lombardi]], whose hand-drawn "narrative structures" diagrammed the financial and political networks central to [[The Octopus]] frame. ## Overview The book documents Lombardi's life and method, his diagrams of banking and political scandals (the [[BCCI Scandal]], Harken Energy, savings-and-loan figures), and his 2000 death, which was ruled a suicide. Goldstone treats Lombardi's art as a form of conspiracy mapping overlapping the same shadow-finance terrain as the Casolaro material, and raises questions about the death. ## Epistemic status The book's authorship (Patricia Goldstone), publisher, and contents are established. Its suggestions of foul play in Lombardi's death are the author's framing, not an established finding -- the official ruling was suicide. ## See also - [[The Octopus]] - [[Mark Lombardi]] - [[BCCI Scandal]]