knockoff, his fourth novel ( The Romanov Prophecy This book is freely available to all subject to the Creative Commons license listed inside the book.Berry goes gnostic in this well-tooled Da Vinci Code 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.Ĭopyright: 2006 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9780345541093 Publisher: Ballantine Books Date of Addition: 04/28/23 Copyrighted By: Steve Berry Adult content: No Language: English Has Image Descriptions: No Categories: Nonfiction Submitted By: Bookshare Staff Usage Restrictions:

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. Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. 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. 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. 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. 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.

Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. 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. until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. hard to put down without reading one more page.' - The Florida Times-UnionThe ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes.

The templar legacy by steve berry