Heretic: Book One of the Templar Chronicles (The Templar Chronicles) (HARDBACK)

by Joseph Nassise

Book Overview

Forget what you've been told. Monsters DO exist. And they're hungry. Cade Williams knows this all too well. Several years ago, an encounter with a fallen angel known as the Adversary resulted in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739460811
• ISBN13: 9780739460818
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Necromancers and zombies abound

In HERETIC: THE TEMPLAR CHRONICLES, Cade Williams is a modern-day Templar Knight who has a terrible wound in his heart, a wound that can never heal, one that torments his every waking and sleeping hour. This wound, however, has also empowered Cade to fight evil like no other knight before him, gifting him with a rare talent for recognizing the powers of darkness and black magic that threaten not only the church, but also the world. The Vatican, recognizing Cade's unusual skills, assigns him commander of the church's special operations division, which battles the arcane forces of darkness. When someone or something starts desecrating the Templar cemeteries, and the Vatican's Templeton Commandery in Cincinnati is attacked, killing many of the Knights Templar, Cade begins to suspect that a very powerful and ancient necromancer from out of his past might be the force behind both the desecrations and the attack. As Cade sees it there is only one necromancer in the world who would commit such evils, be so brazen as to attack the Commandery itself -- the very same necromancer who wounded Cade's soul those many years ago, and stole from him his very reason for living. However, the necromancer now has a new campaign, the theft of a holy relic hidden somewhere in the deep repositories of the Vatican's enclave, a relic that will impart to him limitless supernatural power over both the living and the dead once he takes possession of it. It is up to Cade and his team of Knights to cross the very boundaries between life and death to defeat the necromancer and his army of the undead; to plow under the necromancer's corruption, which has reigned unchallenged since Cade's last encounter with him. But Cade also has a secret agenda, which is to inflict his own brand of revenge on the necromancer, and take back from hell the life that was stolen from him. If you enjoy swords-and-sorcery adventure with zombies and apparitions, this action-packed novel of good versus evil, written in third person omniscient narrative, will not disappoint. Joseph Nassise is a very capable writer who has invented a brooding but sympathetic hero in Cade Williams, the protagonist in HERETIC, which is the first novel in Mr. Nassise's supernatural horror series, THE TEMPLAR CHRONICLES.

I WANT MORE!!!

All I can say is WOW! When does the next one come out? When will they make the movie?? Buckle up and get comfortable, you are in for a heck of a ride! Happy reading!

Terrific Novel

I have to say with Nassise's latest effort Heretic that he has really outdone himself once again. With his debut novel Riverwatch he surprised me with the fluidity of his writing and his ability to keep the reader involved in all aspects of the story. Heretic is no exception.The writing is fast paced and action packed with some genuinely scary moments which i did not expect. While a completely different book than Riverwatch in almost every aspect,Heretic is actually a better novel which if you have read Riverwatch,tells you how good this actually is. The story centers around Cade Williams, a Templar Knight Commmander of his own special unit. The Templars were thought to be a long defunct military arm of the vatican.Cade himself has had his own personal encounter with Evil in his past and uses methods that others deem "extreme" which earns him the name Heretic. But Cade has good reason for his methods. After attacks on the Templars Bases, Cade and his team are assigned to find out who or what is responsible. I don't want to give too much away so i will stop at that. Thoose of you looking for a good horror novel or even those just looking for something new or different to read, i reccomend picking this up, you will not be disappointed. My only gripe is that i have no idea when the sequel is coming out.

terrific dark horror thriller

When their organization was outlawed, the Knights Templar went underground until the Vatican recognized them again and they became an arm of the church fighting the supernatural enemies of humanity. One Knight Commander Cade Williams, in charge of Echo Command, joined the order when as a policeman he encountered a supernatural entity he calls the Adversary that killed his wife. He fully intends to avenge his wife's death but for now he fights the cases of the order whenever he is called to do so. Someone or something is attacking commanderies (various headquarters of the Knights Templar), killing the Templars and raising them from the dead as revenants. The group of nine led by Simon Hamilton Logan, the head Necromancer is looking for the Spear of Destiny for it is believed whoever possesses it could rule the world. The battle becomes personal for Cade when he realizes the Necromancer is in league with his enemy the Adversary. Before he can ever think of taking vengeance on his foe, he must keep the spear out of the enemy's hands, a difficult thing to accomplish when there is a traitor within his organization. Horror fans will be delighted to discover the works of Joseph Nassise a relatively new writer who can hold his own with such masters as Douglas Clegg, Bentley Little, and Stephen King. Heretic is a dark work, gothic in tone with scary scenes that will frighten even those who don't get scared by reading a horror novel. The protagonist fights on the side of the light even though he has his own agenda. Like this reviewer, fans will look forward to more adventures starring Cade and the Knights Templar. Harriet Klausner