The Last Templar
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| A secret lost for a thousand years. A deadly race to keep it buried. | |
| Author | Raymond Khoury |
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| Country | Great Britian |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Suspense, Mystery novel |
| Publisher | originally by Ziji Publishing paperback by Orion Books |
| Released | 2005 |
| Released in English | 2005 |
| Media Type | Print (Paperback Hardcover) |
| Pages | 440 pages |
| ISBN | ISBN 0752879685 |
The Last Templar is a novel by Raymond Khoury, released in 2005
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[edit] Plot introduction
(What follows is a secondary plot, which continues throughout the story, but not in chronologically. What follows is chronological. The numbers on the side of the paragraphs are the order they appear in the book.)
1)The prologue begins in the year of 1291 in Acre, Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem where there is a battle happening. Martin of Carmaux is a Knight Templar and sees his dying leader leader give a chest to a higher monk. The knights then depart from the battle in their ship the Falcon Temple.
4)At sea they run into a storm and Aimard who is now their leader hides the chest in the headpiece of the ship. They then go to land as their ship sinks.
3)After fighting a gang of mamelukes Aimard is hurt and his dying wish is that Martin and three others take a letter to the Head of the Templars. Before dying he hides a pouch under a gravestone. Martin and the others then depart.
5)In Tuscany in January 1293 as Martin and Hugh journey to Paris they go in the mountains and Hugh gets a fever. Martin goes to a town seeking food and a doctor and is attacked by men who he kills and is then knocked out by the doctor. Hugh dies from a fall during the fight.
2)Years later in Paris, March 1314 the head monk of the order Jacques de Molays in a prison where he is visited by King Philip IV and Pope Clement. The king asks him about the secret tresure the Templars had been accumilating for the past 200 years, but de Molay says there is no treasure, and is condemned to death the next day.
6) As Martin reached Paris on March, 1314 after escaping from the doctor’s people he found the Grand aster being burned on the stake, but he took it up upon himself to make sure the Order never died.
[edit] Plot summary
In the present a couple of people on horseback dressed up as Templars enter the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York during a party when it was displaying The Treasures of the Vatican. The Templars come in and take a multigeared rotor encoder. Their leader says "Veritas vos Liberabit" and they leave. They killed many with Uzis and one by decapitation.
Tess Chaykin was there when it happened and after talking to the FBI when they got on the scene she left. When she went to see a friend who had been hurt in the chaos, he told her that they were Templars who had taken the box. So on her way to the lobby she ran into the detective investigating the case Sean Reilly. She told him what she had learned and he was pleased.
The man who had decapitated the guard at the museum Gus was trying to sell an antique collector one of the spoils from the museum. The antique collector Lucien tipped off the police and the next time Gus came the cops were watching him. Gus killed Lucien and was chased by Reilly until he crashed his car. In the hospital a man came to see him and got the name of the person who hired Gus. This man wasn't with the police. After he had the name he killed Gus and went to Branko Petrovic who had hired Gus. The man got another name from Branko and killed Branko too. Then he went to the next victim’s house Mitch Adeson and killed him too.
Tess started looking for the man that her friend from the hospital had said she should visit. Tess being an archaeologist had been with William Vance on a dig years ago and now she was seeking him. She found him in a cemetery visiting his dead wife. Vance shot her with a taser and kidnapped her. She found out it was him who had taken the device from the museum. A monk named De Angelis came and Vance fought him. Then Tess managed to escape into a sewer with some of Vance’s papers and escaped to Reilly. She gave him the papers. When Reilly had decided to go through the tunnels in search of Vance and the place she was being trapped in she received a call from her mother who said Vance was at Tess’s house. She arrived at her house and gave him the papers and he left.
A few days later Reilly found out that everything is X-Rayed before it comes into the US so he went to the airport and found the files from when the multigeared rotor encoder was being sent. They found out that is was a letter by Aimard (look in the second paragraph in the secondary plot for what was in the letter). It mentioned a place called Fonsalis. Tess found out that this meant, “well of the willow” and with research found out where it was. So without telling Reilly she went to the airport to got to Turkey. Reilly found her at the airport and came with her. When the arrived in Turkey they took a jeep to Fonsalis and when they got there they found it was under water from a nearby dam. They dove under and retrieved the bag. When they surface they find Vance there and he takes the pouch. Vance allows Tess to know that the Falcon Temple had sunk during the storm and the chest was in the headpiece.
As Reilly, Vance, and Tess were talking De Angelis and another man were shooting at them and managed to kill their guide and Vance’s thugs. When they escaped Vance suspected the Vatican to be behind the attack. As they talk about what could be in the hidden chest Vance says that it could be the truth to the gospels and that most of them are false. Reilly being a Christian argues with this, but finds his argument plausible. Reilly decides they are just going to go home because he was there to capture Vance and he did. Tess then runs away with Vance to find the Falcon Temple leaving Reilly in the middle of nowhere.
As Reilly is standing around De Angelis comes in a helicopter and we find out he was the one killing the men from the museum, and that he is not only a priest, but also a CIA operative. Reilly is then taken to the Vatican where he is told by Cardinal Brugnone that the Templars found the diary of Jesus and that in the diary he claimed to be a man and not miraculous.
Tess and Vance board a ship and find the Falcon Temple just as two biblical sized storms are blowing in. Reilly and De Angelis chase them from another ship and De Angelis uses a machine gun to sink Tess's ship and Reilly uses a life raft to find Tess.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Martin of Carmaux
Martin is in the secondary plot of the story and is a Templar. After his mentor Aimard dies he is to take a message to the Grand Master, but after many perils he finds him burned on the stake.
[edit] Aimard of Villiers
Aimard is also a Templar in the secondary plot of the story and appoints Martin to take a message to the Grand Master when he dies.
[edit] Tess Chaykin
Tess is an archaeologist and was in the museum when it was attacked. She is a main part in discovering where the pouch is and after she befriends Reilly they go together to Turkey to find the pouch.
[edit] Sean Reilly
Reilly is a FBI agent and is appointed the case of the attacking of the museum. After capturing Gus and finding the other two people who attacked the museum dead he befriend Tess.
[edit] Gus, Branko Petrovic, Mitch Adeson
These were the three men who with Vance attacked the museum and took the multigeared rotor encoder. The three are killed by De Angelis who hunts them down and kills each in a different way.
[edit] William Vance
Vance is the main antagonist and raids the museum and takes the device. His motives are to release to the world of Christianity that their beliefs are false. He wants to do thiis because a priest said to him that abortion is like murder, and because he and his wife didn’t abort their unborn daughter Vance’s wife and daughter died. Vance dies after he falls from a ledge after being chased by Reilly.
[edit] Monsignor De Angelis
De Angelis is a priest, but also a CIA operative. He kills the three raiders and sinks the boat Tess was on to prevent them finding the headpiece.
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Khoury, Raymond (2005). The Last Templar. Orion Publishing.
- [www.lasttemplar.com/ Book's Offical website]. Retrieved on 2006-12-07.
