The Templar Legacy: A Novel (Cotton Malone)

The Templar Legacy: A Novel (Cotton Malone)

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 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 wasâ‚¬â€œand 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 instinctsâ‚¬â€œand plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought heâ‚¬d left behind.

It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cottonâ‚¬s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, whoâ‚¬ 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 sheâ‚¬s not alone. Competing for the historic prizeâ‚¬â€œ and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possessesâ‚¬â€œis 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 worldâ‚¬â€œand, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Ballantine Books
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780345504418
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-11-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780345504418

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Ballantine Books
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780345504418
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-11-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780345504418

The Templar Legacy: A Novel (Cotton Malone)

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