The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry follows Cotton Malone, a retired espionage officer turned rare book dealer, who gets pulled into a quest by his former boss to find a lost treasure of the Knights Templar that challenges Christian orthodoxy. The narrative is described as well-researched, blending early Christianity and 14th-century France with a strong sense of place and time. The story involves a hunt for Templar secrets, clever clues, historical facts mixed with fiction, and a blend of action and adventure.
The book is likened to a mix of National Treasure and The Da Vinci Code, providing a thrilling adventure with real and fictional history intertwined. The characters, including Cotton Malone, Cassiopeia Vitt, and Henrik Thorvalsen, are well-developed and complement each other in their pursuit of justice and uncovering ancient mysteries. The author, Steve Berry, is praised for creating an engaging plot filled with twists, turns, and a balance between actual historical facts and fictional storytelling.
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Themes related to historical violence, religious controversy, and potential distressing depictions of past tortures are present.
From The Publisher:
New York Times BESTSELLER - "Exciting… hard to put down without reading one more page." - The Florida Times-Union
The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it was-and its true nature could change the modern world.
Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts-and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he'd left behind.
It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton's former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who' s far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she's not alone. Competing for the historic prize- and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possesses-is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.
Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized world-and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.
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I enjoyed it for its page-turning pace, clever historical insights, and well-researched conspiracy elements. The main character, Cotton Malone, was really thorough in his investigations into the Knights Templar secrets. I felt a little bogged down by so much historical exposition but, all in all, the story remains interesting throughout.
Fast-paced story and historical mystery.
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About the Author:
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth, The King's Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor's Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link,…
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