Admittedly, I found it difficult to review this book without commenting about my own strong feelings about the main content, but I’ll try to do just that. This was a Dan Brown-like novel, a murder mystery which took place in Italy and involved symbols of the Freemasonry. Although ChatGPT suggests the roots of the Freemasons dates to the medieval stonemasons’ guilds, the authors essentially trace it to the time of Christ. In essence, the book suggests that Freemasons had a long history of secretly trying to undermine and sabotage the Catholic church, all of Christianity, and the Muslim faith as well. Freemasonry was not a religion, but its members were required to believe in a supreme being, the form of which was left to individual belief.
The authors Reinekings wrote that there are 33 levels of Freemasonry which members advance through, and as they advance, the members gradually learn about the true meaning of their symbols. While the masons openly supported brotherly love, charity, and truth, it was only the members at the highest ranking who knew what the symbology was really about, and their intentions were hardly charitable or noble. Secretly, the society had been supporters of both Hitler and Stalin.
Given the current decline of Christianity over the last many decades, it was the decision of those of highest ranking in Freemasonry to give up their centuries-old long game for a more daring big play. Their idea was to steal a nuclear weapon from the poorly secured soviet arsenal, to explode it in an American city and to blame the whole matter on the Muslims. By so doing, the masons thought they would hasten the end of all organized religions.
The Reinekings have produced a good storyline with a well-disguised plot. The main characters are both believable and compelling. I will leave other readers to comment further.
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