The Last Templar

The Last Templar Review

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• ISBN13: 9780451219954
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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. What follows is an investigation that will draw an archaeologist and 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 Templars.

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Customer Reviews

A Gripping Debut Historical Thriller - LATH - Silver Spring, MD
This book starts off very good with a great action screen that will blow your mind.

What I liked about the book is the writing style, historical references, action-packed scenes, and it was fun to read. I learned a lot from what Khoury put in the book about the Templars which made me do further research on some of the items outlined in the book.

What I did not like was the ending. The ending was too quick and a little unbelievable. I thought Khoury would have made the ending a little tighter and more action packed based on the way he started the book.

Overall, there are some minor flaws with the book it is a good debut novel. I look forward to reading Khoury's other books.


1000 Year Long Shaggy Dog Story - Emerald -
The book works quite well as a technical, plot-driven thriller. The novel is (line by line, paragraph by paragraph) very well written. But as human drama it fails.

The last Templar is most successful when the protagonists are hurled across continents, chasing after a Templar artifact, attempting to elude evil priests and whatnot. Tales of individual Templars is nicely interspersed.

But the motivations of the protagonists just don't make sense. Tess, the heroine, is an archaeologist. She dreams of finding an important ancient treasure--and gaining super fame. She jumps at the chance to chase after the artifact. That's an okay goal for a 12 year old kid. But for a mother of a young child and professional? Sean, the hero, an FBI guy, is slightly more sympathetic. His motivations for going on the artifact hunt, however, seem glandular based.

Now for the human climax. After narrowly escaping with their lives, the protagonists are flung on the beach of a little Greek island. So, happily, is the artifact.

But Tess has to decide what to do about the artifact. The author frames her dilemma as a question of humanity. Poor Tess doesn't have any humanity of her own to rely on. She looks for help. In her mind, the compassion and spirituality of those around her is a good substitute. She has Sean, the hero, whose catholicism feels tacked-on and insincere. And then she has the kind, religious island Greeks. She's going to use the Greek Orthodox folk to figure out what to do about the 1000 year old machinations of the Roman Catholic Church. Feels exploitative and wrong.



Jul 01, 2010 18:35:07