Secret Band of Brothers / A Full and True Exposition of All the Various Crimes, Villanies, and Misdeeds of This Powerful Organization in the United States.

A reformed gambler offers a first-person exposure of a secret, nationwide fraternity that uses initiation rites, coded vocabulary, and organized networks to facilitate gambling, counterfeiting, bribery, theft, and occasionally murder. The work assembles episodic case studies—including conspiracies over missing indictments and a mysterious locked box—alongside lectures, legal entanglements, trade-based scams, and the group's constitution and by-laws. Personal recollections, extracted correspondence, and examples of secret signs and terminology are woven together to show how ostensibly respectable citizens and criminal elements collaborate, and to call for public awareness and moral reform.