initiation process are taken so seriously by way too many people. It’s simply a misconception. There’s nothing discomforting about it.
I know that I can go to any Masonic Temple anywhere in the world and find fellowship. I know that any Mason can come to my lodge and be greeted and treated as one of our own.
I remember my first night walking up to the lodge's front door. A man following me asked where I was headed. I pointed to the door. He nodded, clapped me on the back, and said, "You are going in the right direction."
Do you know a lot of people who are Masons?
Before I joined, I hardly knew of any. As I said, no one in my family was a Mason before me. One day I ran into a fellow police officer who was wearing a Masonic ring. I asked him if he was a Mason and I asked how hard it was to join. He gave me some of the information you see here, and before I knew it I was bathing in the blood of virgin sheep.
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Just kidding.
Wanted to see if you were still paying attention.
About the Author
As a teenager, Bernard Schaffer starred in Nickelodeon’s “Don’t Just Sit There,” musical productions, television commercials, and a skit on Saturday Night Live. He left acting to pursue a career in law enforcement. Since 2000, Schaffer has worked as a patrolman, detective, and narcotics officer in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
In 2012, he released a series of books titled SUPERBIA about a dysfunctional police department. As a result, he was stripped of his detective rank.
Schaffer is the founder of the Kindle All-Stars. The project’s first release was an anthology titled RESISTANCE FRONT that starred Harlan Ellison and Alan Dean Foster. All profits from that book are being donated to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
The following books are available from Bernard Schaffer via Amazon for your Kindle (paperback also where indicated) and free for members of Amazon Prime.
SUPERBIA
$2.99 Kindle, $9.99 paperback, Free on Amazon Prime
(Also available in a Collected Edition featuring Book 1 and 2)
"Ed McBain for the 21st Century." Matt Posner, author of School of the Ages
"Schaffer is the very best independent author I have ever read...with Superbia, Schaffer has taken his game to an entirely new level." David Hulegaard, author of Noble
“Step to the side, Joseph Wambaugh." 5-Star Customer Review
"Schaffer's writing is top notch. He is funny, dark and tortured throughout. I was laughing at one page and then crying the next." The Book Nook Club
A deadly shooting leaves police officer Frank O'Ryan with a shattered knee and a growing addiction to Percocet. Upon his return to duty, he is assigned to assist the most despised person in his police department, Detective Vic Ajax.
Together, the two officers will encounter everything from drug stashes hidden inside dirty baby diapers to geriatric child molesters. They will journey into a world of madness, crushing isolation, and unsung heroism from which so few return.
Superbia is the funniest, scariest, most brutal account of what police officers truly experience, written by the only author in the world who could take on such a task.
Best-selling author Bernard Schaffer does more than write books. He is a real life police officer. This is the book that ends some careers and begins legendary new ones.
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SUPERBIA 2
$2.99 Kindle, Free on Amazon Prime
(Also available in a Collected Edition featuring Book 1 and 2)
"Superbia 2 is the knockout punch from the new heavyweight champion of police procedurals. With this book, Schaffer cements his place among the all-time greats and silences anyone who ever tried to stop him. In the face of oppression, he came back swinging and this book stands defiant. It is a true testament to his love of the police profession, those who (really) do the job, his hatred of those who don't, and his
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