The Last Templar

Hardcover, 645 pages

English language

Published July 5, 2006 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-8718-5
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OCLC Number:
64595960

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With rights already sold in heated auctions in twenty-one countries, The Last Templar, Raymond Khoury's epic debut novel, is ready to thrill readers on these shores."It has served us well, this myth of Christ."—Pope Leo X, 16th CenturyIn a hail of fire and flashing sword, as the burning city of Jerusalem falls from the hands of the West in 1291, The Last Templar opens with a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escaping to the sea carrying a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's dying Grand Master. The ship vanishes without a trace.In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights emerge from Central Park and ride up the Fifth Avenue steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the blacktie opening of a Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and …

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Subjects

  • Officials and employees
  • Thrillers
  • New York
  • American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +
  • Women archaeologists
  • Fiction
  • Fiction - Espionage / Thriller
  • Theft from museums
  • Historical - General
  • Religious - General
  • New York (State)
  • Action & Adventure
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • United States
  • Large type books