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yellowdogintexas

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30. "The Templar Succession" by K R Eckert which turned out to have a lot more going on than I expected!!
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 07:50 PM
Aug 31

In 1972 a disgraced college professor and a retired FBI agent set out to discover, once and for all, the final resting place of the legendary Treasure of the Knights Templar. Days later, both men disappear without a trace.

Forty years later, spurred on by the discovery of a long lost manuscript, the Professor’s son hires historians Paul Davenport and Sara Walsh to pick up where his father left off. Their adventure leads them from Benjamin Franklin’s Freemasons to the early days of the Civil War, from World War II Paris to the corrupt world of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. But Davenport and Walsh aren’t alone in their search. A fanatical group of Neo-Knights have infiltrated the Freemasons in an attempt to reignite the Crusades. And watching them all from the shadows is a mysterious figure known as The Bookkeeper.

From the Capitols of old world Europe to a remote estate on the coast of Canada, to a small town in Pennsylvania, Davenport and Walsh discover kidnapping and murder, and go from hunters to prey as they get closer and closer to the secrets of The Templar Succession.

This is the first in a series called "The History Hunters"

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Still working my way through DuMaurier's Rebecca, and listening to a non-fiction. Scrivener7 Aug 31 #1
Those both sound great hermetic Aug 31 #3
Tom Hanks' movie "A Man Called Otto" is based on that book yellowdogintexas Aug 31 #31
Ali Velshi's book segment yesterday was about Rebecca. Made me want to read it again. txwhitedove Aug 31 #6
I'm really enjoying it. Scrivener7 Aug 31 #7
I read A Crowning Mercy and the sequel Fallen Angels recently. rsdsharp Aug 31 #9
Rebecca was also a great old movie. Jeebo Aug 31 #19
I'm reading Jilly_in_VA Aug 31 #2
What Happened to Lucy Vale hermetic Aug 31 #4
Kindle First Reads Jilly_in_VA Aug 31 #22
First Reads is awesome. I have picked up several really good books there. nt yellowdogintexas Aug 31 #32
Reading the Nora Kelly books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Midnight Writer Aug 31 #5
Good choice hermetic Aug 31 #10
"Old Bones" about the Donner party was extra creepy. Number9Dream Aug 31 #24
I have not read the Nora Kelly books but they sound really good. I do like Lincoln and Chiles yellowdogintexas Aug 31 #33
Loved visiting Shakespeare & Co in 2004 with daughter. Charming cat roamed tabletops full txwhitedove Aug 31 #8
How lovely! hermetic Aug 31 #12
I'm reading An Officer and a Spy by Robert Harris. rsdsharp Aug 31 #11
Sounds good hermetic Aug 31 #15
Cold Burn/A J Landau cbabe Aug 31 #13
Oh wow hermetic Aug 31 #14
Lady of Hay by Barbara Erskine Jeebo Aug 31 #16
Mud on the Stars, by murielm99 Aug 31 #17
Huie's first novel hermetic Aug 31 #18
"The Wrecker," Clive Cussler and Justin Scott Bayard Aug 31 #20
A new Isaac Bell novel, The Iron Storm, comes out next week. rsdsharp Aug 31 #26
Thank you! Bayard Aug 31 #35
You're welcome. I've been waiting more than a year since the 14th book in the series came out. rsdsharp Aug 31 #36
I like the Clive Cussler novels LogDog75 Aug 31 #27
Documentary: Portrait of a bookstore as an old man unc70 Aug 31 #21
Finished "The Medici Return" by Steve Berry Number9Dream Aug 31 #23
I loved I Hope This Finds You Well! mentalsolstice Aug 31 #25
Lisa Jewell's "Don't Let Him In". sinkingfeeling Aug 31 #28
Calico Joe by Jophn Grisham LogDog75 Aug 31 #29
"The Templar Succession" by K R Eckert which turned out to have a lot more going on than I expected!! yellowdogintexas Aug 31 #30
Just starting oberle Aug 31 #34
I am listeniing to hermetic Sep 5 #39
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah Unwind Your Mind Sep 1 #37
The Hallmarked Man somethingshiny Sep 2 #38
Sounds worth waiting for. hermetic Sep 5 #40
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