The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry Summary
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Named among NPR's top 100 thrillers ever written, "The Templar Legacy" launches Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series with an irresistible puzzle: what if the Knights Templar's greatest secret wasn't destroyed? "The thinking reader's Dan Brown" will change how you see history.
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The Ancient Secret That Could Shake Christianity to Its Core
The sleepy village of Rennes-le-Chateau hides a secret that powerful forces have protected for centuries. When Cotton Malone's quiet life as a Copenhagen bookshop owner is shattered by a knife-wielding assailant who commits ritual suicide rather than be captured, he's pulled into a deadly mystery spanning continents. His former boss Stephanie Nelle needs his help investigating her late husband's obsession with this French hamlet and its connection to the Knights Templar. What begins as a simple favor quickly escalates when a colleague is murdered and they discover they're being hunted by a secret society that never truly disappeared in the 14th century as history claims. What could be worth killing for after seven centuries? The answer lies beneath an ancient abbey, where evidence challenging the very foundations of Christianity has been hidden since the Crusades.
A Medieval Order's Secret Survival
The Priest Who Spent Too Much
Decoding Centuries of Clues
Faith Versus History: The Great Devise Revealed
The Price of Truth and Transformation
When Legend Becomes Our Truth
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