Author George Smart embarked on an 8-year fact finding mission to clarify the Biblical story of Jesus after reading Holy Blood, Holy Grail, the historical account of the Knights Templar, their mysterious mission and some highly controversial findings regarding the life and times of Christ.
: Tracking History’s Most Intriguing Monks, authored by Smart, provides a comprehensive bibliography and timeline of commercially available resources on a subject recently set ablaze by Dan Brown’s provocative novel, The Da Vinci Code.
A_P: What provided the impetus to embark on 8 years of research and write a book on the Knights Templar?
GS: I stumbled across Holy Blood, Holy Grail and other books by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, including The Messianic Legacy and Temple and the Lodge. They are some of the books that Dan Brown used in researching The Da Vinci Code. My attraction to those titles was that for the first time, they told a story that really seemed to make sense.
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