The Last Templar - Softcover

Khoury, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1409118568 ISBN 13: 9781409118565

Publisher: Orion, 2010

Synopsis

A secret lost for a thousand years. A deadly race to keep it buried...

1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace...

Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and, in a brutal and bloody attack, steal an arcane medieval decoder.

For FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat and mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers - and a centuries-old mystery...

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1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace...Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and, in a brutal and bloody attack, steal an arcane medieval decoder. For FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat and mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers - and a centuries-old mystery...

Review:

a rollicking mystery with Knights Templars riding out of New York's Central Park, Grand Masters, brutal murders, a feisty archaeologist and religious secrets. Read by Jeff Harding who also read THE DA VINCI CODE, a book wery much in the news! (Kati Nicholl DAILY EXPRESS)

'AUDIO OF THE MONTH: A superb and bestselling debut novel in the tradition of LABYRINTH or THE DA VINCI CODE. In New York at the Metropolitan Museum, 4 horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and in a brutal and bloody attack, steal a medieval decoder. It is now up to FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin to race across 3 continents in search of the ruthless killers.' (PRIZES GALORE)

entertaining.... Khoury stokes up the tension. (Simon Evans CHOICE)

Much enlivened by the reading of Jeff Harding, who does a wonderful job of characterisation and enthusiasm for the subject. (Emma Fisher Ottakars)

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1409118568
• ISBN 13: 9781409118565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464