Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The 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 wasâ??and 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 instinctsâ??and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought heâ??d left behind.
It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cottonâ??s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, whoâ?? s 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 sheâ??s not alone. Competing for the historic prizeâ?? and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possessesâ??is 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 worldâ??and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berryâ??s The King's Deception and… (más)
A pesar de todas estas advertencias, decidà leerlo.
El libro es una mezcla mal cocinada de todos los ingredientes tÃpicos de un thriller de acción con trasfondo histórico: una organización religiosa ultrasecreta, un ex-agente de inteligencia norteamericano retirado (al estilo de Bruce Willis en Red), a su ex-jefa aún en activo (la Judi Dench de Skyfall), una superheroÃna tipo Lara Croft, el malo malÃsimo que me recuerda al personaje de Gary Oldman en el Quinto elemento, las pistas (insulsas) contenidas en un diario como el que tenÃa el padre de Indiana Jones y una serie de personajes secundarios, tan estereotipados como los anteriores, que no vale la pena mencionar.
La poderosa orden medieval de los templarios poseÃa un conocimiento secreto que amenazaba los cimientos de la Iglesia y cuya revelación podrÃa haber cambiado el rumbo de la Historia. Condenados por herejÃa, fueron aniquilados en el siglo XIV. Cotton Malone, un ex agente secreto del gobierno norteamericano, se ve envuelto en una persecución contrarreloj para descifrar ese enigma que los templarios codificaron.
La poderosa orden medieval de los templarios poseÃa un conocimiento secreto que amenazaba los cimientos de la Iglesia y cuya revelación podrÃa haber cambiado el rumbo de la Historia. Condenador por herejÃa, fueron aniquilados en el siglo XIV, y los rastros de su colosal saber se perdieron en el abismo de la Historia. Hasta hoy. Cotton Malone, un ex agente secreto del gobierno americano, se ve envuelto en una persecución a contrarreloj por descifrar ese enigma que los templarios codificaron. Su búsqueda pone al descubierto una peligrosa conspiración religiosa capaz de cambiar el destino de la humanidad y poner en entredicho la veracidad de los Santos Evangelios.
An ex-spy is plunged back into the violent world he thought he left behind when he's forced into the race to find a treasure that could rock the civilized world.
Jesus said, "Know what is within your sight, and what is hidden from you will become clear. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed." The Gospel of Thomas
"It has served us well, this myth of Christ." Pope Leo X
Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:The 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 wasâ??and 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 instinctsâ??and plunges him back into the cloak-and-dagger world he thought heâ??d left behind.
It begins with a violent robbery attempt on Cottonâ??s former supervisor, Stephanie Nelle, whoâ?? s 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 sheâ??s not alone. Competing for the historic prizeâ?? and desperate for the crucial information Stephanie possessesâ??is 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 worldâ??and, in the wrong hands, bring it to its knees.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steve Berryâ??s The King's Deception and
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A pesar de todas estas advertencias, decidà leerlo.
El libro es una mezcla mal cocinada de todos los ingredientes tÃpicos de un thriller de acción con trasfondo histórico: una organización religiosa ultrasecreta, un ex-agente de inteligencia norteamericano retirado (al estilo de Bruce Willis en Red), a su ex-jefa aún en activo (la Judi Dench de Skyfall), una superheroÃna tipo Lara Croft, el malo malÃsimo que me recuerda al personaje de Gary Oldman en el Quinto elemento, las pistas (insulsas) contenidas en un diario como el que tenÃa el padre de Indiana Jones y una serie de personajes secundarios, tan estereotipados como los anteriores, que no vale la pena mencionar.
Para variar, todos andan detrás de un oscuro secreto perdido que podrÃa cambiar el mundo y que al final resulta que no es para tanto: en realidad el misterio consiste en que el Cristianismo está equivocado (¡sorpresa!). Durante 529 innecesarias páginas la trama avanza gracias a una serie de inverosÃmiles casualidades, alternando "secuencias" de diálogos (sobre dramas familiares al estilo Star Wars) con "secuencias" de acción repetidas (básicamente los personajes corriendo de un lado a otro mientras se disparan mutuamente en edificios emblemáticos - sirve de guÃa turÃstica), todo ello aderezado con multitud de datos históricos copiados por aquà y por allá para que se entienda algo mientras tanto. En defensa del libro debo decir que al menos el autor al final explica en qué consiste el terrible secreto y que la idea está algo más trabajada que el resto del producto.
En definitiva, libro apto sólo para incondicionales del género, que no encontrarán nada nuevo pero que al menos no sufrirán las grandes decepciones que les aguardaron tras El código Da Vinci de Dan Brown o El circulo mágico de Katherine Neville. Esos sà que eran realmente malos.
Leed otra cosa. (