Books like Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry

I tracked down this book at the recommendation of the Tyler at my Lodge. We were talking just before my 3rd Degree, and I was asking him about books about Masonry, what I might read that had a lower level of mystical BS than the usual fare. This was the title that came foremost to his mind, and so within a few days I had pinned it down at a local bookstore. Our Tyler (yeah, it causes confusion) said it wasn't a perfect book, and I agree. But I also agree that it follows far fewer flights of far-fetched fancy than other work I've read. Robinson actually did some genuine, serious research for this book, and it shows. A great deal of his evidence remains, admittedly, circumstantial; but it's hard to fault an author for not being able to turn up documentation on an organization that was guarded and secret, before it revealed itself in 1717. The book is broken into two portions, the first chronicling the travails of the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, aka the Knights Templar, their persecution and disbanding, and what that might have meant for the majority of the members who escaped it all. The second portion dips into Freemasonry as it exists today and attempts to link this latter half with the former; tracing linguistic foibles (a very interesting part of the book); detailing ritual aspects that make little sense on the surface but could be well explained, if his hypothesis is correct. He even takes time to refute, dress down, and mock some anti-Masonic screed that was hot & heavy in the UK in the 90s. I enjoyed this book and found it informative. It remains circumstantial, with a wealth of assumption pasting it all together. But as I said, for writing about an organization as it was 400 years ago, from which time no records have yet been found/revealed, he does a pretty good job.