Former U.S. agent Cotton Malone has retired early and now spends his days pleasantly engaged as an antiquarian book dealer in Copenhagen. One day, however, he receives an unexpected call from Stephanie Nelle, a former superior who would like a bit of assistance. When Cotton foils what appears to be an attempted mugging involving Stephanie and the thief flings himself from a tower to avoid capture, Malone's instincts are engaged. He knows something isn't quite right, a conclusion that will shortly prove amazingly accurate.
Nelle is in Copenhagen on a mission that has nothing to do with U.S. national security. Instead, it is a personal matter involving her husband's apparent suicide several years before. Her husband was an expert on the Templars and had long been on the track of their mysterious treasure. Now Stephanie is somewhat reluctantly following in his footsteps, in part because of a sense of obligation stemming from the recent loss of her son, and in part because of a mysterious packet she recently received.
Piecing the clues together will prove difficult for Nelle and Malone, even more so because while they receive help from unexpected sources they are also facing an unanticipated enemy. Buried within the contemporary church is a secret dark order, an order that has been biding its time for centuries, seeking that which was lost — a corruption even of that vaguely defined version of the Templars which lurks at the edges of the modern world. Raymond de Roquefort, the current master of the Templar knights, himself seeks the treasure for reasons of his own. And he is willing to use whatever means at his disposal to obtain his goal: the lost secret of the Templars, a secret so powerful, so potent, that it was at the root of a schism in the medieval church and promises to do likewise even today.
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