Order in Chaos by Jack Whyte

The third and final volume of Jack Whyte's Templar trilogy charts the demise of the Order at the hands of the French King Phillip the Fourth and his evil chancellor William de Nogaret. Warned by sympathisers at the French Court Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Order, sends William Sinclair to the naval base at La Rochelle to remove as much of the Order's treasure as possible aboard the Order's ships. Forming an alliance with the beleagured Robert Bruce he founds a community on the Isle of Arran. As the years pass the hope that the Pope would intervene on their behalf is dashed and William, as acting Grand Master, frees the remaining knights from their vows allowing them to marry. After leading his knights in support of Robert Bruce at the battle of Bannock Burn William takes his people to find a new life in the Americas. Do I detect here the basis of a new series of novels? No bad thing!