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The Last Templar (CD)

By: Raymond Khoury
Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 0752875388
ISBN-13: 9780752875385
Released: 08 Mar 2006
RRP: £14.99
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The Last Templar - By: Dr. Hermann Bendl, 10 Apr 2007
A complete waste of time. Despite the spectacular beginning, the story line is very thin, the characters are psychologicallly unconvincing, the plot involves too many coincidences & is far removed from reality. And above alll, the writer shows very little understanding of the nature of Christian faith & dogma; trying, for instance, to make out that 1 billion Christians would reel back in horror & renounce their faith if they were told that Jesus wrote a diary & that he was human is ludicrous. And the idea of the Vatican as a corrupt & hypocritical bunch of swindlers who have highly-trained killers like Monsignor De Angelis in their employ is just hopeless.
The Last Templar - By: Mr. A. Bentley, 16 Nov 2006
I thoroughly enjoyed this Audio Book. The Author has cleverly managed to combine modern New York's underworld with Medieval history in an intertwined plot that held my attention alll the way through.
Alot of Historical information is brought to the forefront of the listeners mind which i found enlightening. The air of mystery that has always surrounded The Knights Templar is given a credible explanation.Terrific.

Alan Bentley UK
A Secret that Should Stay Hidden? - By: J. Chippindale, 13 Aug 2006
Another author I have not read before. I know that the author is a screenwriter, whose current credits include the BBC spy thriller, Spooks. I am not sure if this is his first novel, but anyway thank goodness for new authors, particularly when they can write books as good as this one.

The year is 1291, a lonely ship sets sail from the harbour of Acre. On board is a smalll party of Templar Knights & a bound chest that has been entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. They are leaving a city in flames, & under the onslaught of the Sultan's men. The ship vanishes from the face of the earth . . .

The time moves swiftly forward to present day America. At the Metropolitan Museum in New York, four mounted men dressed in the old fashioned garb of Knights Templars make a savage attack at an exhibition of Vatican treasures & escape with a medieval decoder.

This is the beginning of the story that will take an FBI agent & a female archaeologist half way round the world in an attempt to solve a centuries old mystery, while at the same time trying to stay alive . . .

If you like this type of book & there are a few about, not to mention the Da Vinci Code. This is one of the better ones. An entertaining & enjoyable read.