{"product_id":"9781934708644","title":"The Master Game: Unmasking the Secret Rulers of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Master Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePivotal historical events and processes, not least the Renaissance, the birth of scientific rationalism, and the French and American revolutions, are radically re-evaluated in the light of new investigative evidence presented in \u003ci\u003eThe Master Game\u003c\/i\u003e. Even the belief that the United States has a \"global mission,\" so obvious today, may ultimately prove to be less the result of a short-term reaction to terrorism than the inevitable working out of a covert plan originally set in motion almost two thousand years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Master Game\u003c\/i\u003e refers to a scheme or \"game\" played on the world stage to bring about a world order governed by a lofty goal which, today, we term the \"Masonic Ideal.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Master Game\u003c\/i\u003e traces the origins of this game of symbols and words and talismans from ancient Egypt all the way to modern times, and places it squarely on the elitist Scottish Rite Freemasonry, headquartered in Washington, DC, and ruled by a secretive and powerful brotherhood of men who have attained the thirty-third degree. \u003ci\u003eThe Master Game\u003c\/i\u003e exposes this world order's true purpose and, more importantly, shows how it has affected the United States of America and badly backfired on 9\/11.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Hancock\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRobert Bauval\u003c\/b\u003e are the best-selling authors of such groundbreaking books as \u003ci\u003eFingerprints of the Gods\u003c\/i\u003e (Hancock) and \u003ci\u003eThe Orion Mystery\u003c\/i\u003e (Bauval).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040449085680,"sku":"9781934708644","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934708644_p0.jpg?v=1763642237","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934708644","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}