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Masonic Conspiracy Thriler - Free on Kindle today - anyone read it?
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Great find! Thanks!
In answer to the OP, yes I've read it and paid to do so. Here is te review I wrote about it in January:
The Author states that he is a Mason and on his website it states that he is also a member of many appendant bodies.
Anyway, I had to wait a while before I could download and read it which increased my eagerness and I was really looking forward to it. I wasn’t expecting Conan Doyle (bearing in mind that this is work of fiction) but I was rather surprised with what I got, especially in view of what the author had posted about his intentions on this Forum and what I had read about the author’s Masonic pedigree on his own website.
I enjoyed the actual plot of the story itself but frankly found it jarring every time that Freemasonry was unnecessarily interposed into it. It struck me that this story has many of the traits of a story written by a non-Mason in that it introduces some pretty typical anti-Masonic stereotypes, introduces make-believe Lodges to readers, discussed Masonic influence in Soviet Russia where none did (nor could exist), introduced a worldwide Masonic network with a “game-plan” for humanity and in a very baffling way had Masons who addressed each other as Worshipful Bro. etc when they were at work (I work at FMH and even we don’t do that) and in restaurants, etc. I still don’t quite know what to think about the Past Master of a Ladies’ Lodge who was a high class hooker but I know if I was a lady Mason that would annoy the hell out of me.
However, the coup de grace came at the finish of the book where, following a pretty dramatic conclusion to the case, the main character was left contemplating his Masonic future. The book has it that his “Masonic” superiors have perverted the course of justice by allowing the Freemason who had planned and paid for the (Freemason) Cosmonaut to be killed in the first place to go free. This was because the “Masonic plan for humanity” was more important than the law of the Land. It was further justified as “Bro. Cosmonaut had had justice because the actual assassin herself had been killed. They then “ordered” him to keep it a Masonic secret, “on the square”.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement!
Things took a funny turn when I’d finished the book. I was thinking about this review and my feeling about the Masonic elements of the story and decided to drop the author a PM, enquiring which Lodge he was a member of, as I like to include membership status in my reviews when I can. I got quite a strange reply stating that he didn’t think “it would be proper to reveal his Lodge or Masonic Rank as it could be seen as misusing his Masonic connections to promote his amateur writing”. I replied stating that it was a normal question among Masons and that I was a bit surprised with the reply as surely the promotion blurb on his website already does that anyway. Unfortunately, he hasn’t answered my further PMs, so that’s a bit of a mystery in its own right.
Overall Rating 3 /10
In my personal opinion this is a story that tried far too hard to be Masonic, which is a shame as if the Masonic content had have been better thought out and done with more subtlety and grace it would have been a good read as the story itself was very good. I was expecting a detective who due to his Masonic Obligations was above the possibility of corruption BUT I didn’t expect one who was above the corruption of his Masonic brethren.
The Author states that he is a Mason and on his website it states that he is also a member of many appendant bodies.
Anyway, I had to wait a while before I could download and read it which increased my eagerness and I was really looking forward to it. I wasn’t expecting Conan Doyle (bearing in mind that this is work of fiction) but I was rather surprised with what I got, especially in view of what the author had posted about his intentions on this Forum and what I had read about the author’s Masonic pedigree on his own website.
I enjoyed the actual plot of the story itself but frankly found it jarring every time that Freemasonry was unnecessarily interposed into it. It struck me that this story has many of the traits of a story written by a non-Mason in that it introduces some pretty typical anti-Masonic stereotypes, introduces make-believe Lodges to readers, discussed Masonic influence in Soviet Russia where none did (nor could exist), introduced a worldwide Masonic network with a “game-plan” for humanity and in a very baffling way had Masons who addressed each other as Worshipful Bro. etc when they were at work (I work at FMH and even we don’t do that) and in restaurants, etc. I still don’t quite know what to think about the Past Master of a Ladies’ Lodge who was a high class hooker but I know if I was a lady Mason that would annoy the hell out of me.
However, the coup de grace came at the finish of the book where, following a pretty dramatic conclusion to the case, the main character was left contemplating his Masonic future. The book has it that his “Masonic” superiors have perverted the course of justice by allowing the Freemason who had planned and paid for the (Freemason) Cosmonaut to be killed in the first place to go free. This was because the “Masonic plan for humanity” was more important than the law of the Land. It was further justified as “Bro. Cosmonaut had had justice because the actual assassin herself had been killed. They then “ordered” him to keep it a Masonic secret, “on the square”.
To say I was disappointed is an understatement!
Things took a funny turn when I’d finished the book. I was thinking about this review and my feeling about the Masonic elements of the story and decided to drop the author a PM, enquiring which Lodge he was a member of, as I like to include membership status in my reviews when I can. I got quite a strange reply stating that he didn’t think “it would be proper to reveal his Lodge or Masonic Rank as it could be seen as misusing his Masonic connections to promote his amateur writing”. I replied stating that it was a normal question among Masons and that I was a bit surprised with the reply as surely the promotion blurb on his website already does that anyway. Unfortunately, he hasn’t answered my further PMs, so that’s a bit of a mystery in its own right.
Overall Rating 3 /10
In my personal opinion this is a story that tried far too hard to be Masonic, which is a shame as if the Masonic content had have been better thought out and done with more subtlety and grace it would have been a good read as the story itself was very good. I was expecting a detective who due to his Masonic Obligations was above the possibility of corruption BUT I didn’t expect one who was above the corruption of his Masonic brethren.