These Ain’t Your Tom Hanks Templar
The Blood of the Templar is not so much a road trip book as historical fiction with a fantastical twist, but there’s a long journey from the holy lands to Paris then London and back again. It even opens with a chase scene.
The Knights Templar have long been a subject for conspiracy theorists and lovers of intrigue. Most recently Dan Brown brought these theories to the masses with The Da Vinci Code
But no one has dared to speak the real truth about the Templar, that the inner circle lived in darkness and actually fed on the blood of their enemies. Not until now.
What I really like about this book are the historical elements. We see the tensions between the Knights Templar and their rival Knights Hospitaller (a.k.a., the Knights of St. John). But the best part is looking deeper into the holy struggle between Muslims and Christians, where both sides are righteous and both eternally flawed.