The Last Templar,
by Raymond Khoury
Raymond Khoury's The Last Templar grabs your
imagination from the first pages where four horsemen dressed in the medieval
costume of the Knights Templar ride their horses up the steps of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and ransack the "Treasures of the Vatican" exhibit.
They steal many of the artifacts including a crude de-coding device and
disappear into Central Park. Tess Chaykin is an archaeologist attending the
event who witnesses up close one of the horsemen who utters a Latin phrase. She
joins forces with FBI investigator Sean Reilly to follow the clues linking the
reign of the Templars with the present day robbery. This is a very satisfying
read employing history, theology, conspiracy theory and church politics with
something for everyone and a great plot.
-Kathy C.
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