Word: templars
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...prologue opens in a Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1291 where a Templar ship sails away with an enigmatic chest on board...
...midst of the popularity surrounding “The Da Vinci Code” arrives “The Last Templar,” by Raymond Khoury...
Besides the nausea-inducing romantic elements of “Templar,” Khoury’s prose is actually compelling...
...story is still pretty interesting so long as it centers upon the code-cracking and historical backdrops. When Tess and Sean discover the true motives behind the Templar actions, the story really heats up, with multiple double-crosses and revelations to keep the reader guessing...
...derives from his ability to convey complex ideas simply and to let those ideas and his learned - sometimes arcane - references support his plots, rather than weigh them down. Foucault's Pendulum, published in 1988, tells the story of three men in modern Italy whose intellectual games about the Knights Templar catapult them into danger. Along with The Name of the Rose, it helped to spawn an industry of history-infused thrillers - most recently, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Eco is not convinced by Brown's formula: "The whole conspiracy of that plot ... is contained in Foucault's Pendulum...