Last Templar Books in Order

Under the Last Templar banner, Raymond Khoury leans fully into the idea of a lost Templar secret that could rock Christianity if it ever saw daylight. The novels turn that question into a modern treasure hunt, cutting between medieval battlefields and present day investigations.

The story opens in 1291 as the last Crusader city of Acre falls. A small band of Knights Templar flee with a mysterious chest entrusted to them by their dying Grand Master. Their ship, the Falcon Temple, never reaches its destination, and what was inside the chest becomes the stuff of rumor, fear, and legend.

Centuries later, at a black tie gala at New York's Metropolitan Museum, four riders dressed as Templars crash through the crowds and steal a strange geared device from an exhibition of Vatican treasures. That raid pulls desk bound archaeologist Tess Chaykin and FBI agent Sean Reilly into a case that quickly outgrows a simple robbery. The decoder, and the manuscript it can unlock, point back to the Templar voyage out of Acre and to a document the Church has every reason to keep buried.

From there the chase sprawls across cemeteries and sewers in Manhattan, isolated ruins in Turkey, and a storm swept corner of the Mediterranean, intercut with scenes from the last days of the order itself. Part of the pleasure of the series is watching the medieval and modern storylines slowly click together as Tess and Reilly close in on the same truth that doomed the knights.

The sequel, The Templar Salvation, widens the canvas. It opens during the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, where Templars infiltrate the imperial library to steal chests of explosive documents, then jumps to the present, where a vengeful terrorist has kidnapped Tess. To save her, Reilly must break into the Vatican's secret archives and then race after a trail of hidden writings that some characters see as liberation and others see as a weapon that could tear societies apart.

Throughout, Khoury uses the Templar material as a way to ask big questions about how much of religious history is based on faith, how much on carefully managed information, and what happens when those foundations are challenged in public. The books balance gunfights and set pieces with debates about belief, doubt, and the cost of telling the truth.

The core Templar story can be read just in the two main novels, but it also lives on in other formats. A television miniseries and a six volume graphic novel adaptation retell the saga with a visual tilt, while later Sean Reilly adventures revisit some of the ideas first raised here and show how deeply that initial discovery changed his life.