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The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail

By: Henry Lincoln, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
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A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret - a secret of explosive and controversial proportions, which radiates out from the little Pyrenees village all the way to contemporary politics and the entire edifice of the Christian faith. It involves nothing less than... the Holy Grail.

©1983 Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (P)2006 Random House AudioBooks

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Critic reviews

One of the most controversial books of the 20th Century
Their quest for knowledge possesses all the ingredients of a classic 19th-Century mystery novel ... a book that will be hotly denounced and widely read
A book that cannot easily be dismissed (Neville Cryer)
Has all the ingredients of an international thriller ... incredible
It makes compulsive reading
Well documented and often sinister facts
Their quest for knowledge possesses all the ingredients of a classic 19th Century mystery novel
All stars
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interesting but a hard read. lots of names and dates to remember mostly French.
despite that is tantalizingly mysterious. hypothesis is very plausible. The authors have clearly researched thoroughly. brush up on your French geneology though.

interesting but a hard read

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utterly ridiculous yet compelling. hokum. try it. i think people want to believe it, harmless though.

this is a STORY.

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I have read this book at least three times now and find it absolutely fascinating. Not just the history but the parallels to more recent events and the trajectory of modern Europe, are things falling into place?, is it a coincidence that the EU has two capital cities around the Ardennes region?

VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING.

VERY INTERESTING READ

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hilarious. there is some interesting things in here up to the jumping of the shark moment

true!

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Absolutely brilliant, I enjoyed every chapter of this book & its got me thinking of the Catholic religion so much.

Mind opening

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