Allen & Unwin The Templar Inheritance book Crime fiction English Paperback 400 pages

John Hart's second thrilling adventure takes him to the dangerous borderlands of the Middle East in a search for the lost Copper Scroll of Solomon: an unmissable, high-octane thriller for fans of Dan Brown, Scott Mariani and Sam Bourne.

A Templar secret, hidden for centuries.1198: On the eve of his execution, disgraced Templar knight Johannes von Hartelius writes a last confession. The parchment conceals the location of the Copper Scroll, said to hold the secret of Solomon s treasure.In present-day Iraq, John Hart discovers the message hidden in his ancestor's testament. Accompanied only by his beautiful Kurdish translator, Hart sets out to find the Copper Scoll. John Hart must travel in his forefather's footsteps to Iran and the hollow mountain known as Solomon's Prison.but will he share the Templar's fate?

Mario Reading is a multi-talented writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His varied life has included selling rare books, teaching riding in Africa, studying dressage in Vienna, running a polo stable in Gloucestershire and maintaining a coffee plantation in Mexico. An acknowledged expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus, Reading is the author of eight non-fiction titles and five novels published in the UK and around the world.