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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 22, 2011 14:44:37 GMT -6
Started reading a new author the last week or so and I am hooked...
I have only read one book so far called "The Templar Legacy" it is fiction with a serious historical flair. Lots of fact woven into the fiction and makes for some great reading.
The series I am reading has a secret agent type as the hero, so lots of action.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Nov 22, 2011 16:36:48 GMT -6
Templar? As in Knights Templar? That's one of my favorite historical settings. Sounds like cool stuff.
There is a TV show on (I think) SyFy channel called "Legend Quest" where a real-life Indiana Jones type dude searches for all sorts of historical artifacts, frequently connected to the Knights Templar.
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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 22, 2011 18:16:56 GMT -6
Yeah as in Templar Knights...
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 ch-ch-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.
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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 22, 2011 18:21:30 GMT -6
You might enjoy "Game of Thrones" on HBO as well Jake, great show.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Nov 22, 2011 18:22:17 GMT -6
Yeah, I've heard a lot about it. But I'm too cheap to subscribe to HBO.
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Post by Ron on Nov 23, 2011 11:09:01 GMT -6
I've read "The Templar Legacy." It's a good book, once you put aside the idea that it's an attempt to duplicate "The Divinci Code."
Game of Thrones on HBO is great. Probably worth the whole cost of HBO, IMHO. The books are even better.
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Post by Robin Hood on Nov 24, 2011 10:21:10 GMT -6
I've read "The Templar Legacy." It's a good book, once you put aside the idea that it's an attempt to duplicate "The Divinci Code." Game of Thrones on HBO is great. Probably worth the whole cost of HBO, IMHO. The books are even better. Now I don't really see it as a duplication of the DaVinci Code at all... sure there are similarities, but I don't think they are that close. |
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Post by Ron on Nov 24, 2011 12:18:48 GMT -6
Now I don't really see it as a duplication of the DaVinci Code at all... sure there are similarities, but I don't think they are that close. I agree. When I checked the reviews for the book before I picked it up, some people (that I doubt even read the book) were making that comparison. Once I ignored their comments I found the book enjoyable. |
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