A high-stakes thriller which weaves Turkey's war-torn past with action, adventure and conspiracy. British business intelligence operative Iain Black is caught up in the car-bombing of a hotel in Southern Turkey while investigating a murky Lebanese banker. His partner, Mustafa, is killed in the blast
Lost City of the Templars
β Scribed by Paul Christopher
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2015;2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1322828458
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β¦ Synopsis
A Templar legend is revealed as one manβs obsession takes him on a globe-spanning quest into the jungles of the Amazon in the new novel from New York Times bestselling author Paul Christopherβ¦
Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has thwarted the plots of Rex Deus, the twenty-first-century incarnation of the Templars, all over the world. Now, the lost journal of explorer Percy Fawcett leads Holliday into the South American junglesβand a Templar mysteryβ¦
Trailed by an infamous tomb raider and menaced by a tribe of hostile natives, Holliday and his crew uncover a five-hundred-year-old society hidden in the cauldron of the Amazon. Descendants of the Templar Knights, they exist for one reason: to hide and protect the holy artifact taken from the original Temple of Jerusalem by the first Templars: the legendary Ark of the Covenant.
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