Persecuted to extinction, the Cathar heretics desperately want revenge against the Church of Rome. It arrives in abundance 750 years later.
Tortured and burnt alive, the 13th-century Montségur Cathars bury their riches and relic. In the 1930s, German Otto Rahn researches the forgotten relic and coerced by Himmler joins the SS to find the ‘Holy Grail’ for the Nazis. After several exploratory trips to Montségur Otto is exposed as both Jewish and homosexual, and commits suicide. But not before he entrusts his notes to his niece. – Notes that have never been found.
Businessman Steve Jackson and his French girlfriend, embark on a modern-day search for the Cathar cache. Locating Rahn’s abandoned clues unlocks the key to a incredible discovery greater than the Dead Sea Scrolls. And unleashing a 750-year old time-capsule of revenge.
The true story of both the Cathars and Otto Rahn are interweaved and then continued with the fictional search for the relic. Rich in historical detail, this absorbing story climaxes with a thought-provoking and controversial conclusion that brings The Heretics’ Revenge.
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