![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, he immediately contacts "Doc" Holliday, his friend and cousin of his fiancée, Peggy, who just happens to be a former Army Ranger and retired professor of military history at West Point. The fifth of Christopher's Templar books begins with Israeli archaeologist, Rafi Wanounou, discovering the tomb of a French Templar knight in Ethiopia. ![]() I'll give it a lukewarm recommendation for fans of international thrillers. This was an OK entry in the series that suffered from some of the same plot and edit shortcomings as the previous book, though not quite to the same extent. Other than that, not a lot to complain about, a good solid very readable and enjoyable thriller. Neither does there seem to be anything about the ‘priceless treasure’ and the 'riddle solving’ (see above) which do seem to have been left that out after the back cover blurb was written. There is, admittedly, not a lot to do with the Templars, or legions of any sort. Like all those Erich Von Däniken books you read in your youth (if you're as old as me), made real. But let's face it, they're the stuff you really, down inside, hope, wish, were true. I'm not going to pass judgement on some of the connections, theories made or put forward here, which actually form the basis for the book. He's not had many facts to spread around in the previous few books, but makes up for it here. This one is more enjoyable, the readability is at the top and the hokum is kept to a believable minimum. Speaking as a connoisseur of Paul Christopher's Templar series that is.Īs with most of the others, this is enjoyable, readable hokum. It won't win me many converts I'm thinking, and I'll no doubt be shunned at The Discerning Blogger's Christmas Dinner and Dance.but who cares? This was a really rather fine read. ![]()
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