First, Jordan Mechner gave us Prince of Persia, the highly successful video game (and less successful movie, at least domestically). Then, in 2013, Mechner resumed completing his 2010 graphic novel with LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland. The result was First Second Books’ Templar — what  Boing Boing writer (and fellow graphic novelist of In Real Life) Cory Doctorow described as

…a conspiracy thriller about the treasure of the Knights Templar, an order of Crusaders who were persecuted by the King of France in the early 1300s…

Karin L. Kross at Tor.com evaluated Templar as “a heist in the best tradition of Ocean’s Eleven and The Italian Job.” Read Mechner’s own account of the completed hardcover here.