A historical novel and a contemporary detective story are combined in this book which defies all conventional classifications of literary genres. There is a medievally set account of the end of the Templars and a Malta-sited investigation of terrorist-linked infiltration of an otherwise benign Masonic lodge.This book has ingredients with the same power of fascination as are, for instance, to be found in works on third millennium Gnosticism such as the Da Vinci Code, but without any extravagant figment of the imagination, such that a serious scholar would object to it.Winner of the National...