The Templar Secret
- Author Scott Mariani
- Narrator Colin Mace
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 7 November 2024
- Run Time 10 hours and 28 minutes
- Format x-book®
- Genre Espionage and spy thriller, Historical adventure fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, War, combat and military adventure fiction.
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What to expect
A set of symbols scratched on the wall of a crypt in southern France.
A flag bearing a red cross on a castle fortress high on a stone ledge.
And deep in the heart of the Vatican, a team of agents charged with making sure no one discovers what connects them all.
Ben Hope is a magnet for trouble. Years since leaving the SAS, he can still feel when danger is stalking him. But stumbling across someone researching the Knights Templar seems like a problem for historians rather than his military skills.
It’s only when a terrible twist of fate puts not just Ben but the people he loves in the firing line that he realises the battles of the past will soon wreak carnage in the present.
Faced with uncovering a mystery that strikes at the heart of Western civilisation, Ben might finally have unearthed the one secret that could take him down.
Critics Review
‘Compelling from the first page until the last, Mariani and his fabulous protagonist Ben Hope entertain in a gripping tale that will have you turning the pages well into the night’ Mark Dawson
n‘Thrilling. Scott Mariani is at the top of his game’ Andy McDermott
n‘A high level of realism … the action scenes come thick and fast. Like the father of the modern thriller, Frederick Forsyth, Mariani has a knack for embedding his plots in the fears and preoccupations of their time’ Shots Magazine
n‘James Bond meets Jason Bourne meets The Da Vinci Code’ J. L. Carrell
n‘History, action, devious scheming and eye-opening detail. Mariani delivers a twisting storyline’ David Leadbeater
n'Non-stop action – this book delivers’ Steve Berry
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