Templiers. Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland.

In French, 480 pages, carton cover, colors. 26.80 x 18.20 cm. Akileos. Price EUR44.50
The fascination of the Templars has endured since their dissolution, delving into history, myth and wild speculations. The creator of "The Prince of Persia," @jmechner, joins #leuyenpham & #alexpuvilland to weave a huge tome about the fall and persecution of this order, independent of kings and under papal rule. Following a small group of intrepid resisters, the intrigue, immense, sticks to History, but speculates on the mysterious treasure brought from Acre-Sidon, in an exciting classic structure of buddy movies (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at the head).
Images occupying each page, we follow a man, lonely and stripped, along an immense cathedral (one could say planned by Piranesi and Speer), and all the absurdities and sordid episodes that inhabit its shadow. Is there hope, or is it an eternal prison? Is there a narrative, or are they just disconnected scenes from a circular nightmare? The reader who dares to enter and discover...