The Sword of the Templars

By: Paul Christopher

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

After a lifetime on the front lines, Army Ranger John Holliday has resigned himself to ending his career teaching at West Point. But when his uncle passes away, Holliday discovers a mysterious medieval sword - wrapped in Adolf Hitler's personal battle standard. Then someone burns down his uncle's house in an attempt to retrieve the sword, and Holliday realizes that he's being drawn into a war that has been fought for centuries.

Accompanied by his adventurous niece Peggy, Holliday must delve into the past and piece together the puzzle that was his uncle's life and his involvement with the enigmatic warriors known as the Knights Templar. But his search for answers soon becomes a race against ruthless, cunning opponents willing to die for their cause... and to kill Holliday for daring to uncover their past.

©2009 Paul Christopher (P)2010 Tantor

Interesting storyline

It took me about an hour into this book to become truly interested in the story, but then I was REALLY interested. My critique of the story would be that it was fractionally predictable, but the character development was very well done and I am looking forward to the next book. The narrator seemed to whine a bit too much for the female characters; I don't believe that they were "written" that way.

Good story, lots of Templar history, nice balance of good guy vs. bad guy.

Another great book from Paul Christopher!

This book is filled with Christopher’s love of action and strong characters. The narrator did an excellent job as well.

Almost there

Sword of the Templars is well written, and well researched. It's full of great bits of trivia and the performance was good.

It was almost a really great book, but the overall plot was a touch predictable and wrapped up a bit to neatly.

I'll try the next book in the series and hope that it gets better.

Good story but

It leaves some loose ends. What happens with the dead bodies and abandon bullet ridden rental cars? Are we to assume the cops just ignored everything?

history with a twist

If you like history and want a mystery line as well, this series is for you!