Shadow Masters: An International Network of Governments and Secret-Service Agencies Working Together with Drugs Dealers and Terrorists for Mutual Benefit and Profit Paperback – January 1, 2010

An amazingly captivating read. All through my childhood and teenage years I wondered how it was possible that the mighty USSR was brought to its knees, into political chaos as well as mass starvation, with the populace literally freezing in subzero temperatures, all in the midst of the 20th century. The author did an incredible amount of research, and pieces together the whole story, revealing modern day super villains to rival anything seen in a James Bond movie. He further goes into the machinations that threw the former Yugoslavia into massive protracted warfare and ethnic cleansing for the financial benefit of a few (what else is new?), and moves on from here. It's so well written that I found it difficult to put down at times. Think Game Of Thrones, with modern day characters and nations fighting for dominance of our modern day Westeros. I should know, for having just finished that whole series was looking for something engrossing to read and hold my attention, and this is it. Once you learn who is who in the world of modern intelligence, and after removing all the smoke screens and mirrors thrown onto the world scene you will be dumbfounded. This is no "aliens rule us" or "Illuminati" type of fantastic conspiracy book. It's very down to earth, very well researched and keeps you turning the pages. My only criticism, and I hope against hope the author reads this, is that such an amazing piece of work should have gone through much better editing and proof reading, as quite often in the book the punctuation is simply not there, which will cause one paragraph to morph into the next, causing the reader at times to have to back track to understand it correctly.

It appears that if the public does not very quickly become very involved in their government...we are screwed. I have heard less informed state that governments are too chaotic to get much done ...yet they have intentionally destabilized entire countries and governments to get what they want. Estulin describes this in detail with ample research credits. American banks are neck deep in money laundering and the drug money is a globalists cash cow elixir. Eliminate drugs...not on your lifetime. The Imperialists need it to fund their illicit activities in other countries who are not "open democracies". Your definition of democracy, by the way, is not the same as it is for the global elite. Estulin illustrates the processes of identification of resources and the methods which are employed to get them. If it means war.....so be it, death and destabilization of populations....too bad. While not shocked at the lack of compassion...it's absolute absence appears evil. Trine Day publishes books of respected authors whose topics shall we say are not welcome by the traditional publishing houses. After reading the "True Story of the Bilderberg",by Daniel Estulin, I have gained great respect to the length and danger Estulin puts himself into to get his material. At times I feel submerged in a spy novel,at times I feel frustrated at the sheer magnitude of the issues at hand. I have taken "Shadow Masters" as another call to action. My personal motivation has been to call and write to my Senators and Representatives and express my disdain. I fear my fellow citizens must carry the water more than they currently do if any dent in the behavior of the US government is to be changed. The author gives us many good reasons to use the collective power of our voices.

I just finished this fascinating read about all the things the mainstream media will not tell us. I admit, I am an avowed conspiracist and Shadow Masters fits very comfortably in this broad genre of conspiracy writing. My saving grace from the many conservative commentators is that I have for years been reading much the same material in other books by other authors. Shadow Masters pulls the carpet back that much further and articulates the immense problem that we poor citizens must over-come in order to see something of the true state of the world in which we live.In the Epilogue that I have just finished reading, Estulin writes, particularly on page 232 (regarding the media), "The Shadow Master's regime does not want bad news just good news..." and as examples he cites Afghanistan, Kosovo, Russia and Victor Bout. I am embarrassed because perhaps the biggest player in this media sham is Rupert Murdoch who is from Australia, originally, and the university carrying his name is unfortunately just several kilometres from where this is being typed.Estulin even brought out new material that surprised an old conspiracy reader like me when on pages 223 and 224 he talked about 58 major explosions around the world and the belief of some people that they were really micro nuclear weapons explosions; probably the most well known would be the Oklahoma City Federal Building. Estulin uses as his source in Chapter Six, Nuclear Gamesmanship, a guy called Dimitri Khalezov, a former Soviet nuclear intelligence officer who apprises the author of many eye-opening myths about dirty bombs and suitcase bombs. The price paid for Shadow masters is recouped in this chapter alone.If Chapter 6 does not satisfy the price paid for the book then Chapter 2 certainly would and the reasons are the same as Estulin set out in the Epilogue; the corporate media simply will not tell us what is going on around the world or what has already happened. The Economic Rape of Russia was a sobering read. I have realized for too many years that our media would rather tell us about the number of fire trucks and the number of men that it took to get a cat down from its perch 20 meters up in a suburban tree but I can easily recall how little explanation they have told us about why the terrible conditions in the first years of the post Soviet Union happened. Estulin opens this sordid, sordid story and lays open what the western countries did to the Soviet Union and it is not a pretty story.The only negatives I can say about Shadow Masters is the author's acceptance of the existence of al Qaeda and the US government's version of what happened on 9-11; I cannot believe that al Qaeda came into existence on its own nor that 9-11 was planned by a guy dying of kidney disease in a cave in Afghanistan but what do I know? Buy the book; you will be intellectually rewarded many times over.