Last Templar

Author: Raymond Coulthard
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This is a captivating and thrilling masterpiece, filled with twists and supernatural elements. During a turbulent and perilous religious journey, everyone is caught in an endless struggle between reality and history, faith and subversion, mystery and conspiracy, survival and abandonment. Tracing back to the Crusades, inheriting the unknown terrifying secret of the Knights Templar, various factions battle to ultimately this secret in life-and-death confrontations. Thus, the story's timeline stretches from 1291 AD, with the setting expanding from the dazzling New York City to the mysterious Vatican, delving into the perilous Turkey, and finally reaching the desolate Greek Islands. But this does not stop—the story continues, waiting for them is a groundbreaking and earth-shattering mystery. On the opening night of the "Vatican Prehistoric Antiquities Exhibition" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, four masked men dressed as Knights Templar storm in, looting treasures and nearly killing everyone present. To retrieve these priceless artifacts, the FBI collaborates with an envoy from the Vatican to launch a wide-scale pursuit of the four knights. However, the suspects die one after another under mysterious circumstances. This seemingly simple robbery seems to hide deep-seated complexities. The young and beautiful archaeologist Tess is a survivor of the robbery, having witnessed the entire plundering process and to the leader of the four robbers carefully selecting an ordinary yet extraordinary treasure—a ancient cipher machine. Subsequently, Tess and the young and capable head of the FBI, Sean Riley, work together to launch a life-or-death pursuit, unraveling the case back to the Crusades of 1291. They discover that the magical and significant power of the cipher machine leads to a secret that leaves one speechless. Thus, they embark on a one-way journey: from New York to the Vatican, passing through Turkey, and finally arriving at a desolate island in Greece. It is well known that with the immense wealth of the Knights Templar and that secret, they possess the ultimate power to completely destroy Christianity. Tess and Sean Riley finally uncover that secret, but in the face of it, they make an astonishing decision. On the opening night of the "Vatican Prehistoric Antiquities Exhibition" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, four masked men dressed as Knights Templar storm in, looting treasures and nearly killing everyone present. To retrieve this batch of priceless...