Roman o khrabrom i dostoslavnom rytsare Gugo de Peyne, o yego nevospolnennoy lyubvi k vizantiyskoy printsesse Anne, i o yego ne meneye proslavlennykh druz'yakh; ob uzhasnoy sekte ubiyts-assasinov i zagovore Narbonnskikh Startsev; o koldunakh i ved'makh; o strashnykh taynakh iyerusalimskikh podzemeliy; o mnogikh slavnykh bitvakh i doblestnykh rytsarskikh poyedinkakh; a glavnoye — o tom, kak rytsar' Gugo de Peyn i vosem' smelykh druzey otpravilis' v Svyatuyu Zemlyu, chtoby sozdat' mogushchestvennyy Orden rytsar' Khrista i Khrama, ili, inache govorya, tampliyerov.