Title: Shoddy research work
Product review: What could have been quite a good read is spoilt by evidence of shoddy research work. There are several anachronisms which irritate the discerning reader. Examples are the reference to "the Vatican" in connection with the Templars' excavations c.1100 (the Pope only moved to the Vatican in 1871), and the setting up of the Hospitaller Order of St John "of Rhodes and of Malta" (this Order moved to Rhodes in the fourteenth century and to Malta in the sixteenth). The translation of "Rex Deus" is a howler which has already been pointed out by another reader. The vow of obedience taken by the Templars (which aroused the authors' suspicion) is a customary vow taken by all entrants into Roman Catholic religious orders. A cursory query would have shown as much. Otherwise passable.
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