Holy Land, year 1187. In the Battle of Hattin, the Christian army suffers a terrible defeat from the troops of Sultan Saladin. Miraculously surviving Scottish knight Alexander Sinclair, a Templar and agent of the Brotherhood of Zion, a secret organization operating under the guise of the order, is captured by the Saracens and hides under an assumed name. The goal of the brotherhood is to return the treasure buried under the ruins of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, Sinclair's task in this dangerous matter is to establish contact with the assassins, the worst enemies of the Sultan... The novel by Jack White is the second book in the trilogy about the most mysterious mystical brotherhood in world history - the Order of the Templars .