A couple is realistic because real life is full of chances and accidents. There are too many coincidences for me to ignore. I would have liked to focus on the events afterwards.
It is an interesting dramatization (not as dry as a straight-forward fact-based historical record, for instance) but a dramatization it remains. Anyone that knows the basic story of the Templars (Powerful soldiers of God, sacked in one knight, and may or may not have found the Holy Grail and disappeared to somewhere else) will not be surprised by the events taking place. This is a dramatization of the historical event in place of an original story. The main plotline is bloated and bogged down with the minor ones, and the minor ones feel underdeveloped. While all of these are interesting enough on their own, mixing them all together is a pain. Interwoven with all of these is cutbacks to the Fall of Acre to the Saracens. However, there are other threads: Andre carrying a special package, numerous scenes with the king alone, the string of humiliations suffered by the Templar grandmaster, and a whore's own machinations. The plot's conflict is basically for a group of Templar knights to escape the order's headquarters in Paris when it is sieged by King Philip IV.
I will examine plot, characters and polish and then assign a grade. It is a dramatization of the night that the Knight Templar headquarters was sacked and the order dissolved. Open and proud about her sins, she ushers William and his comrades toward dark truths about the city festering around them, about its rulers and the church they've sworn to defend-all in a race to escape that will leave the streets of Paris bloody.Patrick Dorsey asked me to read his novel, "God's Forge". But as their Paris stronghold is seized by royal troops, William leads a small band of Templars in a desperate escape, fleeing with them into the night.Alternately fighting and running, struggling to understand the world that has turned on them so viciously, they cross paths with a brutalized young prostitute. Answering only to the Pope, they bowed before no king or crown.Returned from the Crusades and stationed in Paris, Brother William has grown disillusioned with the Order and plans to leave it.
It was they who took the Holy Land, and they who held it. A legion of elite, monastic fighting men, the Knights Templar were the most fearsome warriors of the Crusades, writing their legend in the gory sands of the Middle East with the blood of their enemies and their own.
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