The Templar Legacy: A Novel Audiobook
The Templar Legacy: A Novel Audiobook
- Paul Michael
- Random House (Audio)
- 2006-02-21
- 15 h 43 min
Summary:
New York Times BESTSELLER — ‘Exciting… hard to put down without reading one more web page.’ – The Florida Times-Union
The ancient order from the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . before Inquisition, if they were wiped from the facial skin of the planet earth, their concealed riches lost. However now two forces vying for the treasure have discovered that it is not at all what they believed it was-and its accurate nature could change today’s world.
Natural cotton Malone, about The Templar Legacy: A Novel one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department, is taking pleasure in his quiet new life as an antiquarian book seller in Copenhagen when an urgent proactive approach reawakens his hair-trigger instincts-and plunges him back to the cloak-and-dagger world he thought he’d left behind.
It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cotton’s previous supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, who’ s definately not home on a mission which has nothing in connection with nationwide security. Armed with vital signs to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across European countries, she methods to split a mystery which has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the age range by locating the famous cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have already been dropped permanently when the purchase of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But she’s not alone. Contending for the historical award- and in need of the crucial info Stephanie possesses-is Raymond de Roquefort, a shadowy zealot with an military of assassins at his order.
Welcome or not really, Cotton seeks to even the chances in the perilous race. But the more he discovers about the ancient conspiracy encircling the Knights Templar, the more he realizes that a lot more than lives are in stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest, rife with intrigue, treachery, and craven lust for power, lies a shattering breakthrough that could rock the civilized world-and, in the incorrect hands, take it to its knees.