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The Last Templar
by Raymond Khoury
from Dutton Adult

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0

• Alternative Ending
  I was disappointed in the predictable ending. Here's a better one:
  The Templars were pulling their own hoax. Each of the two teams had a DIFFERENT version of the Gospel of Jeshua of Nazareth. One was the one the church believed where Jesus was mortal and the other was a true version that revealed that Jesus was indeed the Son of God.
  The motive for the Templars was that belief in God was a matter of faith and there should not be any factual evidence to prove one way or another. By having... more info

• Decent Thriller
  Tess Chaykin is an archaeologist who never got her King Tut career-making find, and is now working an office job, having to content herself with memories of former digs. Her job at least allows her to be on hand for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's opening of the Vatican exhibit, showing treasures long hidden from the public. She is there with her mother and young daughter, but wishes she had left them at home when the opening festivities are interrupted by four horsemen dressed as medieval knights. Three... more info

• Waaaiiiit a Minute People....!!!!!!
  Sheesh!!!! What did you expect??? This is a summer beach read potboiler---and for that purpose it's perfect! This is not high literature. If you enjoyed Dan Brown, you'll enjoy this. If you are into Templars and the Gnostic Gospels, you'll enjoy it even more. Sure, it has the typical cardboard characters, but we're not reading this for them. It has action, murders, grave-openings (underwater even!), the works. I thought the Templar interludes were very well done--normally I find it annoying when novels... more info

• The Last Templar
  The Last Templar. If asked, as I was 99-44/100 through the book, whether I "loved" it, I would have said: "Yes indeed". However, the ending was so bad and pointless, that it made the entire book reading experience a bit of downer. Why even start a book with that kind of downer ending is the question.

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