Okay, so since I've been basically stuck at home for the last week because of my gimp back (which, by the way, I'm not allowed to do ANY KICKBOXING for the next two weeks, that fucker doctor), I picked up a bunch of books at Borders.
On to the books:
This guy is actually a pretty good writer, especially when it comes to explaining stuff. I'm unfamiliar with the Knights Templar as a whole, so my wikipedia-ing was at a minimum with this book. Basically, this book had to do with the Knights and their fabled wealth and the fight to find said wealth (even though they lived in squalor, the Knights were backed by several powerful national and political leaders who gifted them with wealth and land to fund their battling). In the book, the Knights didn't end with the death of de Molay, their leader who was burned at the stake. Instead, they went underground and took on a monk like persona. It's about one monk who wants the power of the Knights (he was a second in command and the first in command died from cancer) and also features two former U.S. operatives who are trying to break the puzzles that lead to the treasures.
Same author as above and I'm a sucker for anything "Da Vinci code-ish" (like puzzles that are worked into actual history).
The Amber Room was a real room that was in one of the palaces in Russia. This room was entirely made of amber, down to the wall panels and decorations itself. Even the chairs were amber. Well, back during WWII, the Nazis actually stole the room (by breaking down the panels) and it hasn't been seen since. It has, however, been recreated recently in Russia.
Anyway, in the book, there's a group of people who acquisition stolen art for personal gain (a.k.a. they sometimes steal stolen shit so the previous thieves can't complain it's stolen, but they'll buy it too.) Two of them are really rich old men who have younger counterparts, a man and a woman, who acquisition for them. They're rivals and they will literally kill to acquisition things for their bosses. Caught up in this is a U.S. judge and her ex-husband (who's a lawyer), who travel to Germany to follow up on some clues on why her father was killed.
Very good author. He has another book based on Anastasia (that Russian princess whose family was murdered and who was rumored to have survived). I kind of want to read that one.
Last one. Still good, not as good. This one was about the Nazis and their views on superhumans. (Something like, Nazis thought that the Aryan race descended from these Amazonian like men who were super strong and "perfect"). This one was kind of over my head with a good portion of the book being in German and Dutch. It was hard to get into and I had distractions when I started it (I had to watch Ed's judo match yesterday and I read this to pass the time when he wasn't playing). It was basically about these people who went down to investigate why these Buddhist monks suddenly turned all murderous and crazy (us Buddhists are fucking nuts apparently) and as a connecting story, about this guy who's investigating a murder of an old lady who held the "Darwin Bible". Apparently, the Nazis wanted that because it held the key to evolution. Basically, it culminates in the fact that the Nazis created a machine that could "devolute" someone (or a lot of someones), by giving them what was like a very accelerated form of leprosy. Also, they were dabbling in manipulating DNA in order to create the perfect person. One of the Nazi benefactors got ahold of all of this info and they were actually manipulating the DNA to make perfect people and were planning to kill everyone else with the devolution machine.
Very confusing. I mean, there was a whole section of quantam physics (??????) and Lord knows that I sucked at Chemistry 161 and 162. Ah, hell. At least my cover of my book was more attractive than this one.
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