An explosive new history of the medieval world's most powerful military order, the Templars, including a momentous discovery by author and Templar historian Barbara Frale that finally allows the full story to be told. Using sensational new information which she found almost by accident, Frale chronicles the Templars' spectacular rise and fall against a sweeping backdrop of war, religious fervour and a struggle for dominance and finally lifts the mystery surrounding one of the world's most intriguing societies. With a foreword by Umberto Eco.