Acre, 1291. The last Crusadercity in the Holy Land is about to fall. TwoKnights Templar, obeying the grandmaster s orders, manage to escape theinvading Muslim army on the order s last ship. New York City, nowadays. During the unveilingof an exhibition of some of the Vatican s treasures, four men disguised asTemplars attack the Metropolitan Museum and steal several artefacts, includinga centuries-old decoder - a loss that horrifies the Church.