Dirty Secrets of "The Dirty Secrets of the Blackhand"

[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

I am composing a review of "Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand," a book from White Wolf in the early 1990s. Though not as bad as its reputation suggests, it is not good. I am wondering if anyone here knows anything about its composition or the back story to its composition, and if you will share this story.
Thanks.

 

[Grumpy RPG Reviews]

Even aside from issues of tone, the book is badly edited with inconsistent use of terminology and numbers, unusable powers and a weak layout. Further, at a gaming convention in 1996 in Houston, a female White Wolf employee (possibly Jennifer Heartshorn) expressly described the book as a "departing middle finger" from Vampire line developer Andrew Greenberg aimed at Mark Rein-Hagan. Greenberg served as line developer for "Berlin by Night" another bad book from the era.