The Templar cross

By Paul Christopher

Subjects: Retired military personnel, Kidnapping, Extremists, Missing persons, fiction, Fiction, nyt:mass-market-paperback=2010-01-31, Egypt, fiction, Archaeologists, fiction, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, christian, suspense

Description: "Retired Army Ranger John Holliday has reluctantly settled into his teaching position at West Point, when young Israeli archaeologist Rafi Wanounou comes to him with desperate news. Holliday's niece--and Rafi's finance e--Peggy has been kidnapped while photographing the excavation of an ancient tomb in Egypt. Her captors are known as the Brotherhood of the Temple of Isis--murderous fanatics who worship a dead god. Holliday sets out with Rafi to find the only family he has left. But their search for Peggy will lead them to a trail of clues that spans across the globe, and into the heart of a conspiracy involving an ancient Egyptian legend and the darkest secrets of the Order of Templar Knights. Secrets that, once known, cannot be survived ..."--Page 4 of cover.