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CBS used the hook of Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code to introduce Richard Roth's coverage of another book being published by the Vatican. The Trial of the Templars has no chance of becoming a bestseller since its print run is only 800. Still, at an $8000 list price, the leather-bound wax-sealed volume may make some money. The book consists of the transcript of the medieval ecclesiastical trial of the Knights Templar that led to their disgrace and dissolution. Roth mentioned Brown's tale of the Templars being "the supersecret guardians of the Holy Grail" only in order to debunk it. "The Knights, it turns out, were probably victims of C14th politics--of a French king who wanted their riches and a Pope who could not protect them."
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