Solomon's Treasure: Books 1-2
(2016)(A book in the Solomon's Treasure: The Tomb, the Temple, the Treasure series)
An omnibus of novels by Ben Hammott
An ancient mystery, a lost treasure, a great secret and the search for the most sought after relics in all antiquity. An archaeological thriller spanning more than 2000 years.
Beginning with the construction of Solomon's Temple, the Fall of Jerusalem, the creation of the Copper Scrolls and the forming of the Knights Templar and their mysterious tunnelling under the Temple Mount. The story then takes us into the trap-riddled catacombs beneath Rosslyn Chapel, on to Rennes-le-Chateau and the Tomb, Jerusalem and the tunnels beneath the Temple Mount and beyond.
Tag line:
In the catacombs beneath Rosslyn Chapel, one man finds a secret they have spent centuries searching for. They are coming to claim it.
Back Cover Text:
A hunt for a treasure becomes a Quest for the truth.
960BC Solomon's Temple is completed.
70AD Fall of Jerusalem and the Temple Treasure is Lost
1119AD The Knights Templar tunnel under the Temple Mount. Nine years later they find what they have been searching for and return to France. They become the richest and most powerful order the world has known.
1446 Sir William St Clair builds Rosslyn Chapel.
1891 Berenger Sauniere, a penniless priest of the small French village of Rennes-le-Chateau, discovers a parchment hidden in his church - it turns him into a man of great wealth.
1952 The Copper Scroll is discovered in a cave in Qumran. It is a Treasure map believed to have been written around the time Jerusalem fell.
All are connected Part of a Secret buried for centuries.
A secret many have been searching for without success.
Ancient Families, Secret Orders, innocents wronged.
All have suffered. All seek revenge. The Secret will give it to them. They just have to find something that went missing over 2000 years ago.
Includes flashbacks to the life and times of Berenger Sauniere, the priest of Rennes-le-Chateau.
The Priest' Secret continues from Beginnings - Book 1 of the Tomb, the Temple, the Treasure, and includes the novelization of some of the Myths and Legends associated with the tiny hill top village of Rennes-le-Chateau and the surrounding countryside. Most of the locations mentioned in this book are real locations, including the caves, the remainder is from the authors imagination.
Ben travels to France to join forces with Jon Creed, whose grandfather was Abbe, Riviere; the priest who heard Sauniere's death bed confession.
Together Ben and Creed hatch a dangerous plan to safeguard the Tomb and its cache of priceless artifacts.
The task will not be an easy one as THEY also want the artifacts.
The Rex Deus, the mysterious Order of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrament, the Knights Templar and the Vatican, all move in on the duo to reclaim that which they believe to be rightfully theirs.
Intent on revenge for the death of her two brothers, Raven, a sexy and beautiful assassin also seeks out Ben.
Facing danger at every turn, the thrilling story concludes beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2019 updated and revised edition uploaded 14-4-2019
Genre: Thriller
Beginning with the construction of Solomon's Temple, the Fall of Jerusalem, the creation of the Copper Scrolls and the forming of the Knights Templar and their mysterious tunnelling under the Temple Mount. The story then takes us into the trap-riddled catacombs beneath Rosslyn Chapel, on to Rennes-le-Chateau and the Tomb, Jerusalem and the tunnels beneath the Temple Mount and beyond.
Tag line:
In the catacombs beneath Rosslyn Chapel, one man finds a secret they have spent centuries searching for. They are coming to claim it.
Back Cover Text:
A hunt for a treasure becomes a Quest for the truth.
960BC Solomon's Temple is completed.
70AD Fall of Jerusalem and the Temple Treasure is Lost
1119AD The Knights Templar tunnel under the Temple Mount. Nine years later they find what they have been searching for and return to France. They become the richest and most powerful order the world has known.
1446 Sir William St Clair builds Rosslyn Chapel.
1891 Berenger Sauniere, a penniless priest of the small French village of Rennes-le-Chateau, discovers a parchment hidden in his church - it turns him into a man of great wealth.
1952 The Copper Scroll is discovered in a cave in Qumran. It is a Treasure map believed to have been written around the time Jerusalem fell.
All are connected Part of a Secret buried for centuries.
A secret many have been searching for without success.
Ancient Families, Secret Orders, innocents wronged.
All have suffered. All seek revenge. The Secret will give it to them. They just have to find something that went missing over 2000 years ago.
Includes flashbacks to the life and times of Berenger Sauniere, the priest of Rennes-le-Chateau.
The Priest' Secret continues from Beginnings - Book 1 of the Tomb, the Temple, the Treasure, and includes the novelization of some of the Myths and Legends associated with the tiny hill top village of Rennes-le-Chateau and the surrounding countryside. Most of the locations mentioned in this book are real locations, including the caves, the remainder is from the authors imagination.
Ben travels to France to join forces with Jon Creed, whose grandfather was Abbe, Riviere; the priest who heard Sauniere's death bed confession.
Together Ben and Creed hatch a dangerous plan to safeguard the Tomb and its cache of priceless artifacts.
The task will not be an easy one as THEY also want the artifacts.
The Rex Deus, the mysterious Order of the Compagnie du Saint-Sacrament, the Knights Templar and the Vatican, all move in on the duo to reclaim that which they believe to be rightfully theirs.
Intent on revenge for the death of her two brothers, Raven, a sexy and beautiful assassin also seeks out Ben.
Facing danger at every turn, the thrilling story concludes beneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
2019 updated and revised edition uploaded 14-4-2019
Genre: Thriller
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