The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail
- Author Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
- Narrator Simon Prebble
- Publisher Random House
- Run Time 9 hours and 36 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Christianity, Folklore, myths and legends, History of religion, Secret societies, Society and Social Sciences.
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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.
©1983 Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (P)2006 Random House AudioBooks
Critics Review
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One of the most controversial books of the 20th Century
U.P.I -
Their quest for knowledge possesses all the ingredients of a classic 19th-Century mystery novel … a book that will be hotly denounced and widely read
Financial Times -
A book that cannot easily be dismissed
The Bible Society -
Has all the ingredients of an international thriller … incredible
Newsweek -
It makes compulsive reading
Times Educational Supplement
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