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The Templar Legacy by Berry, Steve is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Templar Legacy about?
From Publishers Weekly Berry goes gnostic in this well-tooled Da Vinci Code -knockoff, his fourth novel ( The Romanov Prophecy ). Ex-U.S. Justice Department agent Cotton Malone is intrigued when he sees a purse snatcher fling himself from a Copenhagen tower to avoid capture, slitting his own throat on the way down for good measure. Further snooping introduces him to the medieval religious order of the Knights Templar and the fervid subculture searching for the Great Devise, an ancient Templar archive that supposedly disproves the Resurrection and demolishes traditional Christian dogma. The trail leads to a French village replete with arcane clues to the archive's whereabouts, and to an oddball cast of scholar-sleuths, including Cassiopeia Vitt, a rich Muslim woman whose special-ops chops rival Malone's. Malone and company puzzle over the usual Code -inspired anagrams, dead language inscriptions and art symbolism, debate inconsistencies in the Gospels and regale each other with Templar lore, periodically interrupting their colloquia for running gun battles with latter-day Templar Master Raymond de Roquefort and his pistol-packing monks. The novel's overcomplicated conspiracies an
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Berry, Steve
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Poetry, American Poetry, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.2 / 5 (5,124 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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