Le Temple noir

1313. In the Holy Land, a band of brigands attacks an isolated city. Their leader, Roncelin de Fos, manages to seize the city, unaware that it is of great interest to two key figures: the Grand Master of the Templars and the Pope's legate. Roncelin flees before being captured by the Temple. To pay his debt, he will have to find the only rabbi capable of decrypting the message that the Templars have discovered in the catacombs of the Temple of Solomon. In order to set out in search of the best-kept secret of all time: that of the Stone of Power, claimed by all religions and sought by all powers... 2012, London. A man is murdered after stealing explosive information about the Turin Shroud. At the same time in Paris, the priest of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart is executed as he discovers suspicious excavations in the crypt. For his part, Antoine Marcas, a policeman and Freemason, has discovered the Templars' treasure but refuses to receive the Legion of Honor and prefers to enjoy his new life with Gabrielle, an initiate he met during this last investigation. But his happiness is short-lived, as Gabrielle is kidnapped by strangers. A reality soon imposes itself. The case of the Seventh Templar, which Marcas thought was behind him, is not over. The story is just beginning and the Order of the Temple has not yet revealed its true secret - the one that could plunge the peoples into a Third World War...