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During their thirteenth and fourteenth century, a band of warriors rose to prominence in Europe and Palestine. The land of the Middle East was knows as Outremer, the men who dominated these lands were a group of warriors knows as the Knights Templar, poor fellow soldiers of Christ. These knights gave up all wealth and nobility to follow the covenants of Christ. The house of the Templar’s based in Paris, became a powerful economic force amassing great wealth by donations of money and property. They were the most skilled fighting units of the crusades in the Holy land while also becoming financiers, bankers, merchants and seaman with their own fleet of merchant ships. When the Holy land fell under the control of the Ottoman empire, support for the order faded, King Philip IV of France was deeply in debt to the Templar order, a debt he could never repay. With the aid of Pope Clement V, they denounced the Templar’s as Herotics, killed many while burning the leaders at the stake. A dedicated order of Knights stole away in the night, taking a vast amount of treasure with them, a treasure that was searched for yet has not been found to this day. Though, the myth of the hidden treasure remains. Meanwhile, in the present day, a New York lawyer, hired to locate millions of dollars supposedly brought to Casablanca, Morocco from Florida by Scott Rothstein. A perpetrator of the fourth largest Ponzi scheme in history, a scheme that bilked innocent people of $1.4 billion dollars. Mark Radin, aside from being prominent criminal attorney, was also a decorated Navy Seal with extensive combat experience in many clandestine and covert missions around the world. While in Casablanca, he becomes involved in a murder of a ruthless criminal who was attempting to steal an ancient document from a young messenger who was in the process of delivering this manuscript to a Rabbi for translation. The writing was in an old dialect making it difficult to understand. With the young boy, in possession of the portfolio containing the manuscript the pair must run for their lives, being pursued by the police and members of the criminal gang. Their journey takes them from Morocco to Egypt then Israel in search of someone with the knowledge to understand then translate the papers in the leather case the young courier possesses. The search to discover the contents of this archaic script sends Mark on a dangerous journey to determine the validity of the information in the documents following the trail of loyal band of Templar’s who traveled this way eight hundred years ago. That is if the myth, the rumors of the hidden treasure were true! Only time would tell where the trail led.