A review by rbreade
Templar by Jordan Mechner

This is a well-researched graphic novel set in France, 1307, at the time when the King of France outlawed and destroyed the Knights Templar, who were left to their bloody fate by their employer, the Pope. Mechner's command of the politics of the time is strong, and his story is riveting, with skillful threads and echoes from sources as diverse as Alexandre Dumas, Umberto Eco, Ocean's Eleven, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. His bibliography provides a road map to his source material, including maps and architectural drawing of Paris during the Middle Ages.