The Last Templar: a novel by Raymond Khoury

If you liked the Da Vinci Code, you'll like this novel, July 2, 2006****


This novel revolves around the Templar legends. It starts with a bang with four horsemen dressed like Templars crashing a major display of artifacts from the Vatican at a museum in New York.The novel then flashes back and forth between the past and the present. The past is the last days of the templars as they flee from Jerusalam with precious secrets of the Order. The present has a detective and an archeologist collaborating in a search for the modern Templar look-a-likes and for the lost treasure that was taken by the fleeing Templars and hidden-where? The lead-up to the ending is promising but the ending itself is disappointing in that the author is on the verge of a controversial and explosive ending but backs away.