Why all the talk today about Friday the 13th and GOD'S FORGE?

The connection is the Knights Templar.

In the middle of the night on Friday, October 13, 1307 King Philip IV of France deployed his royal troops to arrest all of the Knights Templar on charges of heresy and corruption and seized all of the wealth the Order had accumulated. Centuries of building an international force that fought for Europe and protected its travelers were wiped out in a single night. The phrase "Friday the 13th -- unlucky for some" soon came into use, and some say it's the root of our modern Friday the 13th superstitions.

It's also the night whose events inspired my novel GOD'S FORGE, where in the middle of the arrests, a small band of Templars escapes the Order's Paris fortress and flees into the dark streets of the city, their mission to uncover what exactly has happened to their brethren and why, and then fight to save them all.

History and tradition tied together, and still echoing in a society half a world and seven centuries away.