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Raymond Khoury

    1 gennaio 1960
    Raymond Khoury
    The End Game
    The Sunken Church
    The Devil's Handiwork
    The Knight in the Crypt
    La missione dei quattro cavalieri
    Il santuario
    • 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.

      Il santuario
    • 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
    • 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
    • The Devil's Elixir

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      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
    • Empire of Lies

      • 624pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      "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."

      Empire of Lies