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Imserba Webstore - The Templar Legacy: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780345504418
Feature: ISBN13: 9780345504418
ISBN: 0345504410
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2007-11-27
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date: 2007-11-27
Studio: Ballantine Books
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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 was–and 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 instincts–and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.
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. 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 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, 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 world–and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Summary: Quit 1/2 Way Through
Comment: Yes the editing/writing is poor from time to time -- I think I saw the word clearly used three times in two sentences, and twice more before the page was over. But this is petty. The main concern, and why I quit reading the book, was the lack of rational foundation. No reason for the existence of the secret society was provided. Hundreds of years, hundreds of people, no reason to exist, except ohhh, ahhh we are a secret brotherhood. And they are all the same, like the Star Wars storm troopers, so killing them is OK. A pretty shallow and obvious approach. And I didn't like two of the three main characters as they were too cold and emotionally constipated. But what finished it off for me was the tired old song and dance that Christianity is evil, and has killed a bunch of people. As if people haven't killed each other off for other religions, or for secular reasons. As if without Christianity, life would be like Shangri-La. So very tired of irrational people trying to sound logical on the emotional evils of Christianity. Some Templar hubris might be in order. Or maybe math classes (since math is cruel and doesn't allow the facade of logic to find the correct answer). The Kindle price of 0$ was too much for me, but I give this two stars for those who are angry at Christianity -- you might like this book, especially if your algebra is a bit rusty.
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Summary: Even better than the DaVinci Code
Comment: Exciting read from beginning to end. Excellent Templar book. I liked it better than the DaVinci Code and I love the Cotton Malone character. This is the first book in a series featuring Cotton Malone and the books get even better as the series goes along. An interesting mix of fact and fiction, very suspenseful and hard to put down. I have become a real Steve Berry fan and am seeking out his other books to read.
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Summary: a great read
Comment: It'a a great story and has good flow. I would recommend to anyone who loves stories about masonary, templars or the middle ages
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Summary: Great FICTION and use of artistic license
Comment: I have been fascinated with the stories regarding the Knights Templar. I think this book was very well written for a fictious novel that wove some facts and actual landmarks into its telling. For the most part, it was not heavy reading, I enjoyed it. I think it made for a good "sit down and read to relax" book.
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Summary: Cheap shot at Christianity
Comment: Bleah. At first the story was interesting and entertaining; I kept reading to see which direction the novel would go. I'm sorry to say that it went the tired, non-historic, lying route of the The DaVinci Code. Not only did the author repeat a bunch of the nonsense Dan Brown spewed forth, Berry concludes the book with a fictional letter written by the apostle Peter that, in addition to being a slam at the divinity of Christ, sounds a whole lot like someone speaking today in the twenty-first century, repeating general non-offending "wisdom" stating that yes, Jesus was a good man but certainly not divine; after all, we today know better. Yeah, right.
The apostle Paul in one of his letters to the Corinthians (I Corinthians 15:14-19) summed up the overarching consequences if the claims of The Templar Legacy were true: (paraphrasing) "If Christ was not raised from the dead, our [Christian] faith is worthless." Peter would not have sacrificed his life for Christ if he wasn't convinced that Jesus was the divine Son of God, nor, certainly would he have written such a condescending, non-offensive, blah "letter" as that fictionally attributed to him in The Templar Legacy.
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