'Talisman' is a roller-coaster intellectual journey through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the world.
- ISBN10 0140271767
- ISBN13 9780140271768
- Publish Date 7 April 2005 (first published 27 May 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 January 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 576
- Language English