The legacy of the Portuguese Templars
Templar secrets, a mysterious disappearance, and a dangerous search in Portugal
Dita Rossová, an internationally recognised expert on the Knights Templar, is invited to Portugal by the University of Coimbra. The university's centre for medieval studies has acquired a document that mentions her ancestor, Alasdair. However, no one can make sense of the text. Dita readily embarks on the journey, accompanied by Petr Lípa, who has been tasked by Interpol to investigate the disappearance of a Czech couple who were holidaying by the sea there. Only he knows that they were no ordinary tourists. This is confirmed immediately upon arrival in Lisbon, when someone tries to run him over with a car. However, Dita also becomes entangled in the web of mysterious events thanks to an ancient secret she uncovers.
Vlastimil Vondruška
After graduating from the Faculty of Arts at Charles University, he worked at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the National Museum. During that time, he published more than fifty academic studies on the history of material culture and several scholarly books. He currently lives near Bezděz and devotes himself exclusively to literature and historical journalism. To date, he has published around eighty historical novels and detective stories, four books for young people, and, with his wife Alena, two dozen popular science books. Several of his titles have been published abroad. According to National Library statistics, he has been the most-read Czech author in Czech libraries in recent years, having sold 2 million printed books and over 100 thousand audiobooks. He has received numerous literary awards (e.g., the IBBY prize, the UČS prize, an honorary Mensa award, and MOBA publishing house readers' choice awards). His novel Husitská epopej was named Bestseller of the Year in 2015. For his journalism, he received the Krameriova cena awarded by the Association of Independent Media. In 2017, he received a state decoration for literature.
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