Last Templar the Vol. 1: the Encoder

Description

Acre, 1291. The last Crusadercity in the Holy Land is about to fall. TwoKnights Templar, obeying the grandmaster's orders, manage to escape theinvading Muslim army on the order's last ship. New York City, nowadays. During the unveilingof an exhibition of some of the Vatican's treasures, four men disguised asTemplars attack the Metropolitan Museum and steal several artefacts, includinga centuries-old decoder - a loss that horrifies the Church.

Lebanesenovelist, Raymond Khoury got boredof the world of finance and began writing. Not only is he the author ofinternational best-seller The LastTemplar, he also penned its adaptation in comic form, as well as severalscripts for BBC series such as Spooksand Waking the Dead. Brazilian Miguel Lalor fell into the world ofFranco-Belgian comics when he was 12 - the day he discovered Moebius. He came to Paris, helped by his countryman Leo, illustrated series Myrkos before being chose to adapt incomic form nothing less that Homer's Odyssey!