BOOK REVIEWS: Secrets of the warrior monks; In Search of the Knights Templar, A Guide to Sites in Britain by Simon Brighton, Orion, pounds 20.(Features) From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: July 22, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Reviewed by Andrew Martin

The success of Dan Brown's high-profile novel The Da Vinci Code put the ancient order of the the Knights Templar very much in the spotlight.

The Da Vinci Code had the Knights Templar as one of the organisations charged with protecting a secret which would have rocked the religious world to its very foundations.

But Brown's novel - although it upset the higher reaches of the Catholic Church because many readers took...

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