by Jack Whyte
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail told us that the Knights Templar had secrets, probably to do with the family of Christ, and definitely to do with the Temple of Jerusalem. This book takes that idea and runs with it. Speculating that the Knights Templar are an offshoot of an order that has descend...
Oh deary me. It had such promise. A trilogy (this being the first) telling the story of the founding, flourishing & sudden decimation of the Templar knights sounded like a rip-roaring tale. How very wrong. At 548 pages, this is easily twice as long as it needed to be. He gets badly sidetracked into ...