The Lost Crown of the Knights Templar - Tasha Danzig;Preston William Child

A woman stoned in the street. A tattoo no living cult should bear. A crown the Templars died hiding.

When investigative journalist Sam Cleave steps into a ritual killing on a London backstreet and puts the attackers in the morgue, he thinks he has saved one woman's life. What he has actually done is step into a nine-hundred-year-old war.

The dead men carry the same sigil. Dr. Nina Gould is called in to identify it. Before she can finish the analysis, she is dragged from her lab by men who speak a language that should be extinct.

Billionaire explorer Dave Purdue is at the Bilderberg Conference when a woman with no name and no past hires him to recover a relic hidden beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem: the lost Crown of the Knights Templar. She does not tell him her employers are the same cult holding Nina. She does not need to.

Sam, Purdue, and Father Harper have days to find the crown, the captors, and the truth behind the goat-headed idol the Templars worshipped in secret. Because the Order of the Black Sun has set the whole thing in motion, and none of them were meant to walk out alive.

Perfect for fans of James Rollins, Clive Cussler, and Steve Berry.