{"product_id":"secret-of-the-templars","title":"Secret of the Templars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher, Paul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Berkley Books\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColor:\u003c\/b\u003e Multicolor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Deckle Edge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 06-01-2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e part_0451415701\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nThe adventures of retired Army Ranger John “Doc” Holliday and his quest to uncover the secrets of the Templars continue to thrill in this novel from New York Times bestselling author Paul Christopher...After his niece and her fiancé are brutally murdered, Holliday vows to avenge their deaths and finish their work by finding a long-lost Dead Sea Scroll. But in doing so, he stumbles upon a conspiracy linking the Catholic Church to an illicit art forgery operation involving the Nazis.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHunted by those determined to hide the truth, Holliday and Interpol agent Peter Lazarus embark on a desperate race from the vaults of the Vatican to the deserts of Pakistan to unravel a mystery born in the final days of the Third Reich, and to recover the scroll—the contents of which could destroy the very foundations of the Christian faith.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\n\"[Christopher’s] plots are so intricately woven that the reader is swept away.”—Fresh Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nPaul Christopher is the pseudonym of a popular thriller writer. His works include\u003cbr\u003e\nSecret of the Templars,\u003cbr\u003e\nLost City of the Templars,\u003cbr\u003e\nValley of the Templars,\u003cbr\u003e\nRed Templar,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Templar Legion,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Templar Conspiracy,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Templar Throne,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Templar Cross,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Sword of the Templars,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Aztec Heresy,\u003cbr\u003e\nRembrandt's Ghost,\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Lucifer Gospel, and\u003cbr\u003e\nMichelangelo's Notebook.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.      \u003cbr\u003e\nPART ONE\u003cbr\u003e\n1\u003cbr\u003e\nOnce upon a time, in a land far away, there was a man who taught history at West Point Military Academy and he loved his job and he loved his wife, Amy, even more. He had a favorite uncle, who’d taught him almost everything worthwhile he knew, and a cousin named Peggy, who was funny and full of laughter and, when you got right down to it, was probably his best friend.\u003cbr\u003e\nBut that was once upon a time and that fairy-tale life was over. Amy died a torturous death as cancer ate her alive; his uncle was dead along with the job he loved at West Point. And now, so was Peggy. He was wanted for murder in the country he’d fought for so many times and he had a legion of enemies trying to track him down for the things he knew and the power he had. Power that he didn’t want, power that he’d never asked for, power that he wished desperately he had never known existed.\u003cbr\u003e\nHe stood on the high cliffs of the Dorset coast feeling the cold, slanting rain from the English Channel slashing into him, chilling him to the bone. On a clear day, you could make out the coast of France from the muddy pathway, but it hadn’t been clear for weeks now.\u003cbr\u003e\nLieutenant Colonel John “Doc” Holliday, U.S. Army Rangers (retired), turned away from the cliffs and followed the path back up to the old thatched cottage that he and Eddie Cabrera had rented for the winter, paying six months in advance and in cash. He and Eddie were living completely off the grid now—no credit cards, no cell phones, no wireless devices of any kind. The only communication they had with the outside world was a big Grundig Satellit 900 portable radio with short wave, long wave and police bands.\u003cbr\u003e\nHolliday turned up the walk and stepped through the little gate and into the overgrown garden in front of the cottage. The old woman who owned the place was willing to have the dead plants and dry grasses cleared away, but Holliday had declined the offer. The tall grass and the windswept undergrowth gave the place a deserted look, which was just what he wanted. The cottage was located on a low hill and there wasn’t a neighbor for a mile in any direction. The closest village was Pelham Buckthorpe, a three-mile walk inland, or twenty minutes away on the bicycle that served as their only means of transportation. The nearest constabulary was in Swanage, twenty miles up the coast. “Isolation” was a word he and Eddie were taking quite seriously these days.\u003cbr\u003e\nHolliday tapped his boots on the fieldstone step and gave a triple tap twice on the worn plank door, announcing his arrival. 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