Cotton Malone · Book 1
The Templar Legacy
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 500
- ISBN-13
- 9780345493774
- Type
- novel

About this book
The Templar Legacy, published in 2006 at 500 pages, launches Cotton Malone -- a former Justice Department covert operative running a Copenhagen bookshop until his old boss Stephanie Nelle pulls him back into the field -- on Steve Berry's first historical treasure hunt, chasing the Knights Templar through a present-day conspiracy.
Its place in Cotton Malone
The Templar Legacy is book 1 in the Cotton Malone series. It is followed by The Alexandria Link. See the full Cotton Malone reading order.
Cotton Malone is a former Justice Department covert operative (a 'Magellan Billet' agent) who retired to run an old bookshop in Copenhagen, only to keep getting pulled back into the field by his old boss Stephanie Nelle. Each novel sends him chasing a real historical mystery or lost treasure — the Knights Templar, the Library of Alexandria, Charlemagne's tomb, the Romanov dynasty, the Nazi underground, the founding-era secrets of the U.S. Constitution — and ties it to a present-day conspiracy involving…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780345493774
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781415927762
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780340899236