Book Review: The Templar Legacy

Reviewed By: Pat Reid - RAM

The Templar Legacy     Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Steve Berry
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Thriller
Ballantine Books, 2006, 480 pps.

Cotton Malone formerly worked for the US Justice department but now is retired and running a book store in Copenhagen, Denmark. When he was waiting in a small café on a Danish square to see his former boss Stephanie Nelle little did he dream that he would soon be drawn into a plot that reached back hundreds of years and concerned the many legends surrounding The Templars.

Stephanie’s husband had killed himself after spending his life trying to uncover the mystery surrounding the disposition of the treasures supposedly hidden. Stephanie scoffed at her husband’s occupation but when she received a parcel that included her husband’s journal and a note referencing a book to be sold at auction Stephanie felt she needed to follow up and see where the journal led her.

Stephanie had lost her son years before in an avalanche so she was totally without family and felt she owed it to her husband to see where these clues led her. When she was attacked and a stranger tried to steal her purse and eventually jumped to his death Cotton felt he needed to step in and help Stephanie on her journey towards the truth.

The Templar Legacy is a very complicated book and will take you on a journey back in time when the Templars were at their most powerful. A conversation with the author at the end of the book will clue you in as to what is actual truth and what is imagination.

Pat Reid - RAM

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