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The Last Templar

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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...

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Product Details
0752875388 / 9780752875385
CD-Audio
823.92
08/03/2006
United Kingdom
English
Thrillers
6 hr.
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Published by a small press in trade paperback, THE LAST TEMPLAR was THE sleeper hit of 2005. From small beginnings, it went on to sell over 30,000 copies and to fly-out of wherever it was stocked. This was done almost entirely on brilliant word-of-mouth... This is a terrific, gripping adventure reaching from the dark history of the crusading Knights through the sewers of modern-day New York to the highest point of command at the Vatican. Raymond Khoury is one of the main writers of SPOOKS - a show that has already provided two previous bestselling authors, David Wolstencroft and Ben Richards.
Published by a small press in trade paperback, THE LAST TEMPLAR was THE sleeper hit of 2005. From small beginnings, it went on to sell over 30,000 copies and to fly-out of wherever it was stocked. This was done almost entirely on brilliant word-of-mouth... This is a terrific, gripping adventure reaching from the dark history of the crusading Knights through the sewers of modern-day New York to the highest point of command at the Vatican. Raymond Khoury is one of the main writers of SPOOKS - a show that has already provided two previous bestselling authors, David Wolstencroft and Ben Richards. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FH Thriller / suspense