Lynn D. (LAD) - reviewed The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1) on + 89 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 6
Good read, moves along quickly. Khoury proffers a unique Templar secret and a subsequent Vatican cover-up that, if revealed , would change Christiandom forever.
Rhonda F. (junior8) reviewed The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1) on + 12 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 5
This was along the same plot line as the Da Vinci Code...but this was way more entertaining! I'd recommend it to anyone who likes this type of story.
CM C. (CocoCee) reviewed The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1) on + 404 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
I think the pop fiction genre has too many action thrillers revolving about a museum employee who has as special interest in a stolen artifact. Then toss in a cop or two, and a heavy dose of anything Vatican. A lot of running around to find then end of the puzzle. I got a third into the book then had to stop. I don't know what the "it" is nor do I want to. Easy to skim this book, quite pedestrian. I'm so glad I did not pay full price.
Peggy L. (paigu) reviewed The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1) on + 120 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 4
Yet another insipid entry into the "make me into a movie!" thriller/romance genre. Even the "shocking" surprise is a bore- yet another religious conspiracy theory, and one that isn't even really fleshed out or explained. I suspect it was tamed down for the very purpose of avoiding any controvery should it be made into the movie it so desperately wishes to be. Go read James Patterson or even Dan Brown instead.
Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed The Last Templar (Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, Bk 1) on + 1568 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
In the genre of the Da Vinci Code, but with fewer cryptograms and more action. Kept me up 'way past my bedtime.
From back cover:
In 1291, a young templar knight flees the fallen Holy Land, and sets out to sea with a mysterious chest entrusted to him by the Order's dying grand master. The ship vanishes without a trace.
In present-day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights stage a bloody raid on the Metropolitan Museum of Art during an exhibit of Vatican treasures. Emerging with a strange geared device, they disappear into the night.
The investigation that follows draws an archaeologist and an FBI agent into the dark, hidden history of the crusading knights--and into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers--as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Tamplars.
From back cover:
In 1291, a young templar knight flees the fallen Holy Land, and sets out to sea with a mysterious chest entrusted to him by the Order's dying grand master. The ship vanishes without a trace.
In present-day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights stage a bloody raid on the Metropolitan Museum of Art during an exhibit of Vatican treasures. Emerging with a strange geared device, they disappear into the night.
The investigation that follows draws an archaeologist and an FBI agent into the dark, hidden history of the crusading knights--and into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers--as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Tamplars.