{"product_id":"the-templar-legacy-a-novel-cotton-malone-no-1","title":"The Templar Legacy: A Novel (Cotton Malone  No. 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ancient order of the Knights Templar possessed untold wealth and absolute power over kings and popes . . . until the Inquisition  when they were wiped from the face of the earth  their hidden riches lost. But now two forces vying for the treasure have learned that it is not at all what they thought it wasand its true nature could change the modern world.  Cotton Malone  one-time top operative for the U.S. Justice Department  is enjoying his quiet new life as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen when an unexpected call to action reawakens his hair-trigger instinctsand plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought hed left behind.  It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cottons former supervisor  Stephanie Nelle  whos far from home on a mission that has nothing to do with national security. Armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe  she means to crack a mystery that has tantalized scholars and fortune-hunters through the ages by finding the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the order of the Knights Templar was exterminated in the fourteenth century. But shes not alone. Competing for the historic prizeand desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possessesis Raymond de Roquefort  a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command.  Welcome or not  Cotton seeks to even the odds in the perilous race. But the more he learns about the ancient conspiracy surrounding the Knights Templar  the more he realizes that even more than lives are at stake. At the end of a lethal game of conquest  rife with intrigue  treachery  and craven lust for power  lies a shattering discovery that could rock the civilized worldand  in the wrong hands  bring it to its knees.  From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986277462069,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345476166","price":26.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345476166.jpg?v=1770894189","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-templar-legacy-a-novel-cotton-malone-no-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}