Exhilarating, epic, sword-swinging history... A skilful storyteller [...] he enlivens the narrative with bloodcurdling details and arresting turns of phrase... There is also fine scholarly intuition'

TLS

Told with all Jones's usual verve and panache, this is a dramatic and gripping tale of courage and stupidity, faith and betrayal

Mail on Sunday

Jones is certainly an entertainer, but also a fine historian who knows how to render serious scholarship into accessible prose

The Times

Another triumphant tale from a historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist

Observer

When it comes to rip-roaring medieval narratives, Jones has few peers, and in the Templars he finds the perfect subject

Sunday Times

A fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate military-religious crusading order, combining sensible scholarship with narrative swagger, featuring a cast of exuberantly monstrous sword-swingers spattering Christian and Islamic blood from Spain to Jerusalem

Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography