A partisan assault on English Freemasonry that starts from a position of hostiliy and seeks to demonstrate that a few unethical Masons are representative of the whole organisation. Belligerent Freemasons only served to reinforce Short's poor opinion of the Craft but the heart of his argument is that if some members of an organisation behave inappropriately, the entire organization and its membership are malign. Short's own publishers serve him ill by misrepresenting the contents of the book on the dustjacket to sensationalise the work: the back cover starts "Inside The Brotherhood reveals the true facts behind allegations regarding Freemasonry's involvement in the death of Stephen Knight" while inside Short states that "an aggressive brain tumour had destroyed [King] in one excruciating year". ( )