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Raymond Khoury

    1 de enero de 1960

    Raymond Khoury crea thrillers que a menudo poseen una cualidad cinematográfica, un testimonio de su experiencia en la escritura de guiones. Sus narrativas entrelazan fluidamente eventos contemporáneos con hilos históricos, adentrándose en grandes temas de política internacional, conspiraciones, fe y conciencia. El estilo de Khoury es reconocido por su intensidad y su habilidad para atrapar a los lectores en la acción a un ritmo vertiginoso, manteniendo al mismo tiempo una sólida base intelectual. Sus thrillers son celebrados por su intrincada trama y su capacidad para involucrar la mente del lector incluso en medio de su emocionante velocidad.

    Raymond Khoury
    The Last Templar
    The Templar Salvation
    The Ottoman Secret
    Rasputin's Shadow
    The Devil's Elixir
    The End Game
    • The End Game

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      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.

      The End Game
      4,0
    • The Devil's Elixir

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      When a herb, capable of inducing an experience so momentous it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization, is discovered, powerful forces on both sides of the law launch a violent pursuit to be the first to exploit it. Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of the 'Templar' thrillers, must keep the lid on this Pandora's box.

      The Devil's Elixir
      3,9
    • 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.

      Rasputin's Shadow
      3,9
    • The Ottoman Secret

      • 576 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      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.

      The Ottoman Secret
      3,8
    • The Templar Salvation

      • 592 páginas
      • 21 horas de lectura

      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.

      The Templar Salvation
      3,8
    • The Last Templar

      • 388 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      An antiterrorist specialist and an archeologist are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading Knights of Templar--a deadly game of cat and mouse with ruthless killers as they race across three continents to recover a lost secret. Now available in a Premium Edition.

      The Last Templar
      3,7
    • The Sign

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      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?

      The Sign
      3,5
    • The Sanctuary

      • 471 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Portugal, 1705. In the dungeons of a Templar castle, a dying old man bequeaths an ancient, half-burnt book to his young inquisitor. Keeping one step ahead of those who would kill to wrench the book's secret from his hands, the inquisitor turns his back on his calling and sets off on an impossible journey to complete the old man's quest. Baghdad, 2003. A military unit makes a horrifying discovery: a hidden state-of-the-art lab, where dozens of men, women and children have died. The scientist they were hunting is believed to be working on a bio weapons programme. But the man known only as the hakeem - the doctor - has escaped, taking with him the startling truth about his work ...

      The Sanctuary
      3,4
    • Manipulations

      • 562 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      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.

      Manipulations
      4,7
    • 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.

      Eternalis
      3,5
    • 1291. La Terrasanta è perduta. Mentre i musulmani irrompono nella fortezza di Acri, seminando morte e distruzione, a quattro cavalieri Templari viene affidata una missione importantissima e segreta: portare lontano, oltre il mare, uno scrigno dal contenuto misterioso. Settecento anni dopo, all'inaugurazione di una mostra al Metropolitan Museum di New York, quattro imponenti cavalieri con le insegne dei Templari irrompono sulla scena e trafugano un oggetto descritto come "codificatore polifunzionale a rotori". Ma cos'è esattamente? Mentre l'FBI segue le piste più disparate, un cardinale rintraccia lo schema del marchingegno nell'Archivio Segreto del Vaticano... e capisce che non sarebbe mai dovuto uscire di lì.

      Sperling Paperback - 62: La missione dei quattro cavalieri
      3,5
    • No Rest For The Dead

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      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.

      No Rest For The Dead
      3,3
    • 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.

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