Search - The Templar Legacy (Cotton Malone, Bk 1)

Makes you think about the basis of Christianity and the Knights Templar. A page turner with good character development, plot twists, factual and fiction historical descriptions (as reveiled in the author's notes at the end). Slightly similar to the Di Vinci Code and the movie National Treasure (my appologies if there is a book). I will defientely be checking out my works by this author.

This is the first entry in the Cotton Malone series, and a pretty good mystery. Although I thought that it took a little too long to set up the story and actually get to the point, it's well written and has lots of fascinating historical (and quasi-historical) details that made it just a cut above the normal. I also appreciated the notes at the end that distinguished fact from fiction. Well crafted escapist reading.

It was a good mystery, with lots of twists and turns in the plot. Has a lot of history in it.
The author distinguishes between fact and fiction in the writers notes!

Anyone who liked ANGELS AND DEMONS will be fascinated by the tricksy unveiling of this novel as well!

From back cover:
Onetime U.S. operative Cotton Malone teams up with his former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, to find the legendary cache of wealth and forbidden knowledge thought to have been lost forever when the Knights Templar were exterminated in the fourteenth century. Nelle is armed with vital clues to a series of centuries-old puzzles scattered across Europe, but also in pursuit of the historic prize is a shadowy zealot with an army of assassins at his command. At the end of the trail lies a discovery that could rock the civilized world--and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.

Good series. Just getting into them. Looking forward to reading another.

Super fast read!! Cotton Malone is a great, first book he appeared in!!