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. Cotton Malone, one-time top operative for the U.S. 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. until the Inquisition, when they were wiped from the face of the earth, their hidden riches lost. hard to put down without reading one more page." - The Florida Times-UnionThe ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes. (Feb.New York Times BESTSELLER - "Exciting.
(Thankfully, the author soft-pedals the genre's anti-Catholicism.) But lively characters and action set pieces make this a more readable, if no more plausible, version of the typical gnostic occult thriller. The novel's overcomplicated conspiracies and esoteric brainteasers can get tedious, and the various religious motivations make little sense. 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. Malone and company puzzle over the usual Code 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. 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. 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. knockoff, his fourth novel ( The Romanov Prophecy Berry goes gnostic in this well-tooled Da Vinci Code
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