Raymond Khoury crafts thrillers that often possess a cinematic quality, a testament to his background in screenwriting. His narratives fluidly weave contemporary events with historical threads, delving into grand themes of international politics, conspiracies, faith, and consciousness. Khoury's style is renowned for its intensity and ability to pull readers into the action at a breakneck pace, all while maintaining a strong intellectual foundation. His thrillers are celebrated for their intricate plotting and capacity to engage the reader's mind even amidst their exhilarating speed.
Raymond Khoury, a bestselling author known for his thrilling novels, has captivated readers with titles such as The Last Templar and The Sanctuary. His works, translated into 40 languages, often blend historical intrigue with modern suspense. Before his writing career, Khoury had diverse experiences as an architect, investment banker, and screenwriter, contributing to acclaimed series like Spooks. Notably, The Last Templar originated from a screenplay he penned a decade earlier, showcasing his talent for storytelling across different mediums.
Eminent scientist Dr Ralph Padley is dying - and he knows it's time to finally tell the truth. Padley has a dark secret, which, if it got out, would have deadly consequences. But there are powerful men who will stop at nothing to silence him. FBI Special Agent Reilly has an agenda of his own. For months he has sought the man who kidnapped and brainwashed his five-year-old son. But that man is a ghost - a highly protected CIA official with no name and no identity, and who may have links to Reilly's own father. Watched, manipulated, and framed for crimes he didn't commit, Reilly becomes a fugitive, making it next to impossible for him to uncover the truth about his past while protecting the family he loves. He's left with no choice but to risk everything to unearth secrets that would shake the country to its core - if he's ever allowed to get that far.
1916. Dans une mine de Sibérie, les ouvriers se mettent subitement à s'entretuer. Quelques minutes plus tard, deux hommes, dont le fidèle confident du tsar, Raspoutine, font sauter la mine, enterrant ainsi toute trace du carnage. De nos jours. Un diplomate russe est défenestré à Manhattan, depuis l'appartement d'un couple apparemment sans histoire, les Sokolov. Une course contre la montre s'engage alors entre Sean Reilly, du FBI, les services secrets russes et la CIA, pour retrouver le couple porté disparu et éviter qu'une technologie terrifiante, remontant à la Russie impériale, et utilisée pendant la guerre froide ne tombe entre de mauvaises mains.
Siberia, 1916. A mine turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and infamous Russian mystic Rasputin - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. New York, present day. FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attache seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window. The apartment's owners have gone missing, while a faceless killer roams New York City, leaving a trail of death in his wake. Reilly's investigation uncovers a deadly search for a mysterious device with origins reaching back to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia and which, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on the modern world.
A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-six masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.
Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was an herb, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got wind of that herb, and launched a violent, uncompromising pursuit to be the first to exploit it? And what if FBI agent Sean Reilly and his girlfriend, Tess Chaykin, were, unknowingly, the only two people who could keep the lid on this existential Pandora's box, one that's capable of destabilizing the world? In Raymond Khoury's million-copy-selling Templar novels, Sean and Tess traveled the globe to unravel ancient mysteries with present-day ramifications. In "The Devil's Elixir," Sean and Tess find themselves in a race-against the clock, against drug kingpins, and even against the DEA-to merge two divergent trails, one several hundred years old, the other as current as a heartbeat, which together may lead humanity to the brink of annihilation. Packed with the nonstop suspense and unexpected twists Raymond Khoury's fans delight in, "The Devil's Elixir" is destined for bestseller lists everywhere.
1) Raymond Khoury: Znamení Na obloze nad jižním pólem se objeví záhadná záře a miliony lidí po celém světě tento jev fascinovaně sledují v televizi. Je to přírodní úkaz, nebo jde o něco nadpřirozeného? Gracie Loganová a její filmový štáb jsou odhodláni znamení sledovat, ať je zavedekamkoli. 2) Terri Irwinová: Steve a já V roce 2006 tragicky zemřel neohrožený „lovec krokodýlů“ Steve Irwin. Jeho žena Terri vypráví, jak se s pohledným Australanem sršícím energií seznámila, jak se do sebe zamilovali a vydali se na společnou cestu životem naplněným vášnivou láskou k přírodě. 3) Jojo Moyesová: Krasojezdkyně V zapadlém koutě Londýna učí bývalý drezurní jezdec Henri Lachapelle svou vnučku Sarah a svého koně „vzdorovat gravitaci“ tak, jak to sám kdysi dělal v elitní jezdecké škole ve Francii. Do jejich života zasáhne katastrofa a čtrnáctileté Sarah nezbývá nic jiného, než se životem protloukat sama. 4) William G. Tapply: Zatvrzelci Bostonský právník Brady Coyne má v rozvodovém řízení zastupovat válečného fotoreportéra v Iráku Guse Shawa. Situace se zkomplikuje Gusovou smrtí, která vypadá jako sebevražda, ovšem Brady ani Gusova sestra, Bradyho dávná láska Alex, si nejsou jistí, zda Gusovi na onen svět někdo nepomohl.
In this thrilling sequel to "The Last Templar," FBI agent Sean Reilly navigates the Vatican's secret archives to rescue Tess Chaykin from a vengeful terrorist. The narrative intertwines with a historical siege in 1203 Constantinople, where Templars steal explosive secrets that could change everything.
A remote shelf in the Arctic circle. A small TV crew is braving the harsh conditions to film the breaking off of a major ice shelf - yet another nail in the planet's eco-coffin. Then someone calls out, pointing at something up in the sky overhead. The camera pans up and they look up to see a blazing symbol clear, burning high over the bleak, deserted terrain. Thus begins a series of strange events worldwide as the mysterious sign appears over the sites of conflict, natural disasters and terrorist atrocities. What can it portend? The world is wracked with both fear and hope. Suddenly, all this is focused onto one man. An obscure monk who recognises the symbol from the past and understands what it means for the future of humanity. But as he becomes the most sought-after man on the planet, the questions have to be asked: could this be the real deal? Or the most elaborate fake in world history? And - either way - what happens to the world now?
More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the decimated palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where dozens of victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two bold women on the trail of an ancient mystery.
