The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry
Dan Brown can be blamed for the sudden proliferation of books dealing with quests, historians, and the search for treasure, knowledge and power. The problem is that as much as I am loathe to admit it, Brown is a much better writer than most of the people putting out similar books.
Berry’s outing is about as bad as it gets. He tells the story of the Templars, who have been driven into hiding and have long since vanished from the world. The Templars are in search of the Great Devise, a supposed secret concerning the life of Christ that will allow them to come out of hiding and shatter the Church that drove them under. Cotton Malone is a used bookseller and ex-federal agent who gets caught up in this mess and has to help stop the Templars. What ensues is a race to solve a series of clues and a chase scene about as short and uninspired as a walk to the grocery store and back. I really wish I had more positive things to say about this, but in a market that is already saturated with Dan Brown clones and National Treasure spin-offs (even spoofs), there is no need to produce any more of it.
Don’t bother buying this. I’m sure you’ll be able to find a copy in a 25 cent bin like me.
Some quotes:
“It has served us well, this myth of Christ”
“She’d only recently satisfied a loan used to finance Mark’s college and graduate school. Her son had several times offered to assume the debt, especially once they were estranged, but she’d always refused. A parent’s job was to educate their child, and she took her job seriously. Perhaps too much, she’d come to believe.”
“There much to be said for devotion. A man can seriously accomplish much when the woman he loves supports him, even if she believes what he does is foolishness.”
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