Raymond Khoury Libri

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.

Nel deserto del Medio Oriente, sulle pareti di una camera mortuaria profanata da una missione archeologica, l'oscuro simbolo di un serpente che si morde la coda offre a chi tenta di interpretarlo un'unica certezza: chi prova a svelare il suo mistero muore. L'archeologa Evelyn Bishop ha le ore contate. Rinchiusa in un laboratorio segreto di Bagdad insieme a un trafficante d'arte, si ritrova al cospetto di un sinistro chirurgo, pronto a iniettare nelle vene dei suoi prigionieri una sostanza velenosa pur di ottenere la verità sul serpente maledetto: allegoria di un eterno ritorno che, nella mente malata del dottore, diventa la strada che può condurre alla vita eterna. Quando gli uomini della CIA irrompono nel laboratorio, la follia del perverso torturatore svela un passato vecchio di secoli, dominato da una lotta destinata a consegnare al vincitore la formula dell'immortalità, chiave di accesso al potere di sterminare o lasciar vivere l'intero genere umano.

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.

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.

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.

"Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of Europe--to the empire's all-conquering army. Notre Dame has been renamed the Fatih Mosque. Public spaces are segregated by gender. And Kamal Arslan Agha, a feted officer in the sultan's secret police, is starting to question his orders. Rumors of an impending war with the Christian Republic of America, attacks by violent extremists, and economic collapse have heightened surveillance and arrests across the empire. Tasked with surveying potential threats, Kamal has a heavy caseload--and conscience. When a mysterious stranger--naked, covered in strange tattoos--appears on the banks of the Seine, Kamal is called in to investigate. But what he discovers is a secret buried in the empire's past, a secret the Sultan will do anything to silence. With the mysterious Z Protectorate one step behind, Kamal, together with Nisreen--a fierce human rights lawyer--is caught up in a race across the empire and time itself--a race that could change their world, or destroy it."

At last, the highly anticipated sequel to The Last Templar arrives, captivating over a million fans. Raymond Khoury's previous work remains a standout in the thriller genre, and now, after four years, he returns with a gripping continuation. Set in Constantinople in 1203, the story unfolds as the Fourth Crusade's armies besiege the city. A clandestine group of Templars infiltrates the imperial library to secure vital documents that must not fall into the hands of the Doge of Venice. They escape with three chests filled with explosive secrets, knowledge that could prove fatal for them. Fast forward to present-day Vatican City, where FBI agent Sean Reilly gains access to the Pope's Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition, a privilege reserved for the Pope's trusted aides. Reilly's motivation is urgent; his love, Tess Chaykin, has been kidnapped, and the key to her freedom lies within these archives, specifically in a document known as the Fondo Templari, which holds a secret history of the Templars. With a masterful blend of historical intrigue and relentless suspense, Khoury's latest work promises to be a thrilling return to the rich narrative that launched his bestselling career.

1291 AD, Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace...Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and, in a brutal and bloody attack, steal an arcane medieval decoder. For FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat and mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers - and a centuries-old mystery...

When a scientific expedition is swallowed up by a shimmering sphere of light during a live CNN report, a devastated viewer in a dusty Egyptian bar recognizes the phenomenon, which is declared by some as proof of God's existence. By the author of The Last Templar. Reprint. A best-selling book.