<![CDATA[The Templar Legacy: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Templar Legacy: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170871321m/75024.jpg 75024 19 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. From the Hardcover edition. 1703824 book 2006 The Templar Legacy: A Novel total:2085|5:369|4:806|3:655|2:203|1:52| 2085 7492 2897 327 3 5 false false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Tue Feb 12 08:45:16 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 12 08:45:16 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 19:53:57 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 15 08:17:07 -0700 2007
- the dialogue is not afraid to spell things out. as in, explaining the obvious, in a predictable, simplistic manner
- the actual storyline meanders a little too much, at lea...more...]]> 5 3 false false Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:33:22 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 13:40:45 -0700 2008
Berry mixes a decent understanding of fol...more...]]> 2 1 false true Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 12:08:58 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 08:48:12 -0700 2008
Ok, finished it. OMG, you mean Jesus didn't ACTUALLY rise from the dead and that it's all a metaphor?! No shit, Sherlock. He hinges the whole plot on Jesus' resurrection, and then you're supposed to act all shocked when the charac...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 29 05:06:54 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 05:16:21 -0800 2008
In a sort of Cliff Janeway–meets–The DaVinci Code story (although, much better told, in my opinion), we follow “Cott...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Sep 12 15:43:21 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 15:43:49 -0700 2007 It has served us well, this myth of Christ. — POPE LEO X

The above appears on the back dust jacket of The Last Templar and as an epigraph for The Templar Legacy. Fascinating, isn't it? My initial reaction upon seeing it for the second time, having just brought home The Templar Legacy, w...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Mar 08 20:20:27 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 08 21:16:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 10:02:47 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 10:06:22 -0800 2008
It took me ages to get through this book. More than once I considered abandoning it but I don't like doing that however bad it is. I was still over three quarters of the way t...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 05:25:19 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 07:04:49 -0700 2008

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Oh man, the characters were lame the narrative was all over the place (seriously, do we get to read everyone's mind?). ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 11 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 21 19:39:18 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 19:39:55 -0800 2008 The Blob. I mention this on the grounds that the way the Blob oozed around the film rather does remind me of the pacing of Steve Berry's The Templar Legacy: turgid, shapeless, and prone to swallow hapless characters until they melt into indistingu...more...]]> 5 0 false true Fri Jun 12 22:32:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 22:33:35 -0700 2009
Whew! Ever since having read Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code, I have quite simply grown more and more obsessed with all these “alternative” tales of Christ—and even more so of the Templar Knights. I simply eat up any novel related to them that I can get my hands on (p...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 18:09:52 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 08:35:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 07:57:31 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 05:34:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 16:41:27 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 05:05:35 -0800 2009 never read 2 of his books in a row again. My mother bought me The Alexandria Link for Christmas and I realized that I should have read The Templar Legacy first. These books have the same characters...more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 25 18:09:41 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 02:51:28 -0700 2009 1
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The Templar in the book survives to this day, disguised as a monastery in the Pyrene...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 06 12:49:13 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 12:50:07 -0800 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=75024