The Templar Legacy: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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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 powerover kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the faceof the earth, their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasurehave learned that it is not at all what they thought it was—and its true nature couldchange the modern world.

Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. JusticeDepartment, is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagenwhen an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instincts—and plungeshim back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.

It beginswith 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. Armedwith vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, shemeans to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters throughthe ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thoughtto have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminatedin 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, Cottonseeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancientconspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that even more thanlives 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 rockthe civilized world—and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.