I, on the other hand, maintain that there is logic and rationality behind my reading strategy. He maintains that he can tell in that first fifty pages if he's going to find the book worthwhile. In this, I am the direct opposite of my darling hubby who, if he doesn't find something to grab his attention and interest in the first fifty pages, feels no compunction about tossing the book onto his ever-growing mountain of unfinished reads. When I commit to reading a book, I feel a compulsion to finish it even if I'm not finding the experience particularly enjoyable.

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.īONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berry’s The King's Deception and a Cotton Malone dossier.I suffer from a bit of OCD in my reading habits. 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. Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. 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.

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. 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. 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. until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost.īut 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.Ĭotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S.

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes.

The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry