The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail - Softcover

"One of the most controversial books of the 20th Century" (U.P.I)

"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" (Financial Times)

"A book that cannot easily be dismissed" (Neville Cryer The Bible Society)

"Has all the ingredients of an international thriller ... incredible" (Newsweek)

"It makes compulsive reading" (Times Educational Supplement)

The most shattering secret of the last two thousand years

The first publication of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail in 1982 sparked off a storm of controversy that continues to this day.The enigma: a discovery at Rennes-le-Château that offers little in the way of material wealth, but whose secret rocked the foundations of contemporary politics and the Christian faith.The players: 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 conclusion: as persuasive, controversial and explosive as it was when first published over twenty years ago.The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail is not just a classic of its kind, it's a book that's impossible to put down.

'All the ingredients of a classic 19th-Century mystery novel...a book that will be hotly denounced and widely read' Financial Times

'Has all the ingredients of an international thriller...incredible' Newsweek