Shadow People: Inside History's Most Notorious Secret Societies

by John Lawrence Reynolds | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1552637433 Global Overview for this book
Registered by amidabutsu of Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada on 7/14/2014
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Journal Entry 1 by amidabutsu from Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada on Monday, July 14, 2014
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"Roving from the parched wadis of the Middle East, to an isolated farmhouse in rural Quebec, to the crowed boutiques of Beverly Hills, master storyteller and award-winning writer John Lawrence Reynolds explores the most notorious secret societies in history, probing their origins and activities, and revealing secrets maintained and distorted over hundred of years.

Reynolds peels away the layers of speculation, paranoia and fear, and shines a brilliant light on individuals and organizations that have generated suspicion and terror over several centuries. He treats the reader to a behind-the-scenes look at rituals and initiations, artifacts and secret signs, influences and dangers. And in the telling, he uncovers a rogue?s gallery of assassins, con artists, thieves, racists, drug smugglers, adulterers, pranksters and crooks.

But where does the truth lie? Does global power actually control the election of world leaders? Has an ancient mystical religion really been reduced to a length of red string selling for a dollar an inch? Are some secret societies little more than a group of boys playing at secret handshakes? From the Assassins to the Yakuza, from Freemasons to Bonesmen, shadow people and their secrets have flourished throughout history. Some fear them, some dismiss them, but everyone is fascinated by them. Secret societies fuel our imagination, and their shadows continue to fall across our daily lives."

Journal Entry 2 by amidabutsu at Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada on Monday, July 21, 2014

Released 9 yrs ago (7/21/2014 UTC) at Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada

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