The Templar Treasure (The Adept)

by Katherine Kurtz

Paperback, 1993

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

Ace Books (1993), Edition: 1st, 310 pages

Description

Adam Sinclair must locate the stolen Seal of Solomon--an artifact under the care of the Knights Templar--before dangerous forces unleash the demons the seal has kept bound for centuries. Reissue.

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LibraryThing member bcquinnsmom

Third installment in the Adept series by Kurtz & Harris, this one is decidely much better than the previous two. Maybe it's because I have a great interest in the Knights Templar, in occult fiction and I'm a sucker for stories of arcane knowledge, but I really enjoyed this book.

Our Huntsment

friends Adam, Noel, and Peregrine (why can't they at least call him Perry?) are back in their game once more. As the story opens, a very dear friend of Adam's, Nathan Fiennes, has been seriously wounded in the course of a robbery at his home. But this is no ordinary home robbery; the thieves are looking for what is purported to be Solomon's Seal, given into the care of the Templar Knights in the past. Even before his wife can call an ambulance, Fiennes begs her to call Adam Sinclair. Once Adam is brought in, he will stop at nothing once he realizes the power of the Seal.

There is a LOT of history regarding the Knights Templar in Scotland; very well done. However, I would be sure to read the first two before this one in the series so you have some clue as to Adam Sinclair's history.

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LibraryThing member willowcove

Maybe not quite as good as the first two, but still very good.

LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey

Not bad, not wonderful. A very rich story, with a lot of philosophy at various levels mixed into the tense and rather grim adventure that's the basic plot. A seal is stolen, and on rather thin (external, visible) clues Adam, Noel and Peregrine decide that it's the Seal of Solomon itself and that

there's a great threat to all the world in its being in the wrong hands. They spend quite a lot of time struggling to figure out _anything_ - who took the seal, what they want, what the seal represents, what their next steps should be. The first clues require quite a lot of discussion with various ghosts - spirits, disembodied and otherwise. Each tiny step sends them off in another direction, for something else that has to be done before they can take the next step - it gets quite frustrating, for them as well as for the reader. The reader does have the advantage of the occasional scene from the POV of the thief, so we know who and why and something of what long before the Hunters do. And it comes down to a race through a rainy night, with our heroes always behind - which may be a good thing. And the Light triumphs in the end, though not before another death. Quite a good story, though not as enjoyable, for me, as the previous one. I'll keep it - as I noted in my review for the first book, these three keep being culled and re-bought, so I might as well hang on to it.

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