title: La Orden del Temple (Books4pocket Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)
author: Raymond Khoury
description: In present-day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights stage a bloody raid on the Metropolitan Museum of Art during an exhibit of Vatican treasures. Emerging with a strange geared device, they disappear into the night. What follows is an investigation that will draw an archaeologist and FBI agent into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights-and into a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers-as they race across three continents to recover the lost secret of the Templars.
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  # The Illustrious House of Ramires
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by Eça de Quierós
  
  
  from new directions
  
  
  [_The City and the Mountains_](http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-city-and-the-
  mountains/)
  
  
  [_The Crime of Father Amaro_](http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-crime-of-father-
  amaro/)
  
  
  [_The Maias_](http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-maias/)
  
  
  [_The Yellow Sofa_](http://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-yellow-sofa/)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![The Illustrious House of Ramires, by Eça de de Queirós. Translated from the
  Portuguese, with an afterword by Margaret Jull Costa. A New Directions
  Paperbook.](../images/00001.jpeg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I
  
  
  In his slippers and wearing a light linen jacket over his pink cotton shirt,
  the Nobleman of the Tower had been working since four o’clock in the
  afternoon, in the heat and silence of a June Sunday. Gonçalo Mendes Ramires —
  known to everyone as the Nobleman of the Tower both in his own hamlet of Santa
  Ireneia and in the neat, handsome neighbouring village of Vila Clara, and even