Dr. Roberts analyzes the many forms secret societies take, and follows their origins, progression, and power—both real and perceived. His intelligent scholarship throws a penetrating light on a murky area of shifting and proliferating alliances between evanescent and shadowy organizations, and plots the legendary careers of many of the conspirators who became the demon kings of revolutionary Europe.

Watkins, 2008.
ISBN: 9781905857562. 478 pp.
Softcover. Very good.