The Templars, Two Kings, and a Pope

by Grigor Fedan

The Templars, two Kings and a Pope, the result of years of research, is the novelized reconstruction of the final 25 years of the Order. In these pages we learn of the secret war the Templars waged against the French King Philip IV, the workings of The Brotherhood, the shadowy organization that operated behind the scenes, the machinations of Lord Otto de Grandson, a Swiss-born, high-ranking Brotherhood member and key English official who enginereed the secret war; one of its outcomes was the founding of Switzerland.

"A truly riveting novel from beginniing to end, this is the stuff of which blockbuster Hollywood movies are made." Midwest Book Review.

"Unlike most fiction about the Templars, this novel has been painstakingly researched...the detail is incredibly accurate." Knight Templar Magazine.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Religion

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 3, 2009

Reviews

[Bill Reeves · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you want to find out the real story about the Knights Templar, this is the book you should read.

The problem with most history, is that it is written by the people in charge. Now, if the people in charge don't like or are embarrassed by what happened, they are going to lie about it, right? That's exactly what happened with the Templars. What has been passed down through mainstream history is half true, and half false. They lied to cover their own behavior. I'm talking about the Catholic Church who in the Midle Ages controlled what people learned.

Unfortunately what was passed down through the legends was no better. Talltales about a Holy Grail, mostly.

But what if you had a writer, who somehow was able to decipher the truth by doing his own exhaustive research and came up with s story that makes total sense of both the legends and what is known about the Templars? If you have been reading about the Templars all your life like I have, then you have this eureka moments throughout The Templars Two Kings and a Pope. You start off by being mesmerized by the sheer volume of research the guy must have done, then you get caught up in the story, because what he describes is fascinating, both for people who know the story and are finding new information, and for those who are reading about the Tempkars for the first time.

I'm not surprised that Amazon.com ranks this novel way up there with the serious scholarly books. LIke the other reviewers have said, this is a serious scholarly work, but in novel form.

Some reviewers have compared it to The DaVinci Code. I agree to a point, except that this book is all real.

[Paul Henderson · Rating 1 out of 5]

I imagine this would be fan fiction for the Templars and the Free-Masons. It is very poorly written and paced and seems to be a cobbling together of all the conspiracy theories of the last five hundred years. The characters are crude sketches, the church and France are portrayed as avaricious and greedy, the templars as some kind of benevolent cross between George Soros and Delta Force.

The story is not so much written and plotted as told. Imagine someone sitting next to you on a bus on a long cross country ride and he starts telling you, artlessly, a story. That is the book.

[Mai-Lan Hanley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent read

I'm this book there is a credible story line but it appears to me that the author has a personal motive and a corresponding bias. The narrative is well intertwined with historical fact but his boss is conspicuously evident throughout. What came through to me was the authors strong dislike for the Roman Catholic Church and it's dogmas During medieval times, the church as an institution, was well known for its autocratic approach toward the Christian Religion and its resistance to allowing the laity to having access to the written Bible. There were many historical examples of the misuse of God's word as written in the Bible. One well known example is the Spanish Inquisition. These abuses can be reasonably be used to explain the eventual splintering of the Roman Church and the rise of Protestant ism. By then the written Bible was in the hands of the layman which in turn turned out to be both good and bad. Once in the hands of the average man, it was inescapable that there would be a seemingly never ending variety of the interpreting of the words of the Bible which also resulted in numerous abuses of the words in that book. This is of course my own personal viewpoint of what is so contained in this book and reflects my own personal bias. Never the the less, I recommend this book and find the narrative opens the mind to other possibilities. What it does not do; however, is resolve the many mysteries of what ultimately happened to the Templars! It offers only one of many plausible explanations for their disappearance!

[Roy Peters · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historical fiction covering the time from the fall of the Crusader states, to the end of the Templars. Other books go into much more into the beliefs of the Poor Soldiers of Christ and the Temple of Solomon. There is much speculation involved, since we don't really know many of the facts. Good historical fiction takes known facts, and weaves a story around them. The author succeeds in this. I would have enjoyed more in depth exploration of Gnosticism, since it is so central to the story. Instead we are presented with a concept of "The Knowing", achievable through meditation. Conceptually it is very vague. Still, the author weaves a plausible story line around what happened to the Templars and their treasure. This is an enjoyable book.

[Richard R., Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I originally gave this book only 3 stars for a review primarily because it glorified Gnosticism, a heresy that says there is a secret "knowledge" that one must obtain in order to reach perfection. This book took it even farther and claimed the Jesus Christ was a Gnostic and that the Church suppressed his teachings of such. As a Christian I could not accept that. I raised the rating of this book to 4 stars because upon further reflection I could not fault the author for writing on novel based upon what at least some of the Knights Templars believed. The book is well written and fast paced. The characters are well developed and likable. Now if he could just have discredited Gnosticism!

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book on my Kindle and spotted it in a recommendation on Amazon. I read this book with great interest and found it both informative and entertaining. Though this book is a novel, it is patent, the author did a lot of research into the history of the Templars. It left me with a desire to read more about this historical and controversial order of monks. After having my interest whetted by this well written novel I decided to read additionals materials on the Templars.