Power, money, knowledge, honour and glory; the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Salomon is at it’s highest splendour, and far away from those nine knights they once were, so poor they had to ride per pairs their horses, still as a reminder of those times a drawing in their shield. But power creates envy and bitterness amongst landowners, the King of France, and Rome’s Pope: they will trigger a mortal attack against the institution, and what’s worse, their prestige.
In the middle of this conspiracy, Knight Adalbert of Tannenberg, destined in the Templar Fortress of Cyprus, is commissioned to alert the Grand Master Jacques du Molay, but his efforts are in vain, and the Templars end up being dissolved and their headmasters imprisoned. Adalbert manages to get into the Grand Master prison, and he assigns him an important task: moving the most sacred relic of the temple. Loyal to his mission, he will travel across the Aragon Land and will contact with the Arabian reigns of the peninsula, where he’ll find help and the friendship the Christians are denying him. Neither way, his destiny is in Scotland, where he’ll have to leave the relics in Rosslyn’s chapel.
Carlos Lens Cabrera (1954) has developed a huge career as a pharmacist and an economist, either way in the private sector and the public one, living in Sweden, Germany, the United States and Japan. His interest in literature has brought him into publishing articles in different magazines, having his own column, “Mosaico”, in the pharmaceutical journal Cuadernos de Rebotica. He has published two novels, being this one his second incursion in historical novel.
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