The Templar Legacy

A Novel

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins

Publisher's summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Exciting . . . hard to put down without reading one more page.”—The Florida Times-Union

The ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. But 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.

Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. 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.

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. 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.

But she’s not alone. 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.

Welcome or not, Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. 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. 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.

©2006 Steve Berry (P)2006 Books on Tape

Knights Passed

As myself a Knight of Columbus, it was entertaining. Enjoyed it very much, listen to it twice.

Reminiscent of De Vinci Code

Enjoyable listening that made me want to visit France again and to see Denmark too.
Enjoyed the narrator a great deal. Super performance.

gives the da vinci code run for it money

I liked this book it kept me wanting more, at time I just sat in the car not wanting to go in.
I read and seen the Da vinci code, and I think this would make a good film as well. it's well Narrated, and he uses his voice to entertain you.

Fictous

If you keep in mind that this is fictitious, based around some history and some just made up facts the story is interesting and well done. Even though not catholic, I found it to be anti-catholic and theologically very narrow. The author seems to be playing on the whole Gnostic gospel movement for revisionist history. I have read other stories using the some of the basic premises and found them more believable fiction. Some will enjoy, some will be offended and some with knowledge of history and theology will be baffled by the interplay between fact and fiction. The authors notes are important part of this book to understand what is fiction and what is history.

Distortions

The book presents incorrect "facts" about what is written in the Bible to weave an otherwise good story.

Wow!

This is a new spin on the underground reflections. I find it against my personal grain but the tale has some attraction. The main complaint is the pseudo French accent in the reader which does become monotonous

Overall it will provide thoughts to reflect on, thus is an intriguing book in itself.

Wonderfully enjoyable

This topic is approached with just enough freshness to be enjoyable. Cotton Malone represents the difficulty involved in personal development.

Painful to get through. Next one is better

I needed another series of books to run through and this one caught my attention. The subject matter intrigued me, as did the "review" of parts of the Bible. However, I was less pleased with the narration, which I thought to be without enthusiasm - the narrator seemed bored. Still, I trudged through to the end because of the story and hoped the second book in the series, with another narrator, would be better. It is, many, many, many times over.

WOW

Finding this book and author is better than finding the Templar treasure!

it is so well written and absolutely sucks you in to the story. If you're into the Templars this is a must listen as a lot of it is based on fact.

If you're not into the Templars you still have to listen because it's an absolutely fascinating Tale. Written by a very skilled author, and so well-read by the narrator.

I could go on. But it is time to listen to it again!

very good book

this book starts off kind of slow and there is a lot of information to absorb with a lot of foreign names period period period but give it a chance, it eventually picks up in momentum and in plot and you will be very pleasantly surprised with the ending