Raymond Khoury

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 whose origins reach 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.

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.

In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret only the marquis harbors. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops of Naples, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine mission makes a horrifying discovery: a state- of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens-men, women, children-have died, the subjects of gruesome experiments. The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapon and known only as the hakeem-the doctor-escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. A puzzling clue is left behind: a circular symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. As the power of the symbol comes to light, revealing the centuries of destruction left in its wake, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever. In the masterful hands of international bestseller Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary delivers the same rapid-fire suspense and provocative scholarship that made The Last Templar a coast-to-coast blockbuster.

In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret only the marquis harbors. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops of Naples, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost. Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine mission makes a horrifying discovery: a state- of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens?men, women, children?have died, the subjects of gruesome experiments. The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapon and known only as the hakeem?the doctor?escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. A puzzling clue is left behind: a circular symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail. As the power of the symbol comes to light, revealing the centuries of destruction left in its wake, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever. In the masterful hands of international bestseller Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary delivers the same rapid-fire suspense and provocative scholarship that made The Last Templar a coast-to-coast blockbuster.

Grande soirée de vernissage au Metropolitan Museum de New York où sont présentés les fabuleux trésors du Vatican. Soudain, quatre cavaliers en costume de Templiers sèment l'apocalypse parmi les robes longues et les smokings. En quelques minutes, tout est ravagé. Réfugiée derrière une vitrine, Tess, une brillante archéologue, assiste au pillage. Très vite, elle a le sentiment que ces intrus, loin d'être de simples criminels, ont un lien avec la véritable histoire des Templiers. Seul Sean Reilly, un agent du FBI, fait confiance a l'intuition de la jeune femme. Ensemble, ils vont enquêter sur un mystère ancestral : ces moines-soldats, protecteurs des croisés, ne détenaient-ils pas un secret qui, dévoilé, aurait pu faire chuter le Vatican, l'Église et la chrétienté tout entière ?

Un símbolo en el cielo aparece ante millones de personas. ¿Debemos prepararnos para el fin del mundo? Una expedición científica llega a la Antártida y echa anclas. Cuando la periodista de la CNN baja a tierra para grabar parte de su reportaje, una enorme esfera luminosa aparece de pronto en el cielo, envuelve el barco en un resplandor blanco y se desvanece tan misteriosamente como ha aparecido. El hecho es presenciado por una audiencia tan masiva como incredula. Entretanto, en un polvoriento bar de Egipto, una docena de hombres discute tranquilamente sobre la situacion mundial cuando el brillante signo que ven en television los deja de piedra. Uno de ellos empieza a persignarse freneticamente y abandona el local murmurando una y otra vez la misma frase: No es posible. En Internet, y a lo largo y ancho del planeta, una controversia turbadora azota a la humanidad: ¿ha decidido finalmente Dios revelarse? ¿O se trata, por el contrario, de algo mucho mas siniestro? Raymond Khoury es el autor del best-seller La orden del Temple, que ocupo el numero uno de la lista internacional de libros mas vendidos y estuvo mas de tres meses en la lista de exitos en tapa dura del New York Times. Las comparaciones con Dan Brown son inevitables, pero la verdad es que Khoury es un escritor muy superior... The Irish Mail on Sunday

Raymond KhouryA 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?

Another cutting- edge thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history from the bestselling author of The Last Templar.

Santuario es un thriller cargado de intrigas y emociones que se multiplican hasta encajar a la perfección, cuya acción transcurre a un ritmo vertiginoso.Khoury, guionista de la serie televisiva CSI, utiliza una formula que no falla: una trama inspirada en oscuros secretos relacionados con la alquimia, camuflados bajo la busqueda frenetica de la formula secreta de la vida eterna. La busqueda de un oscuro secreto escondido entre las paginas de un libro que data del año 1700 llevara a una genetista y a un agente de la CIA a embarcarse en una aventura mortal por Europa, America y Asia, en busca del elixir de la juventud y la vida. Bagdad, 2003. En una mision de rutina, una unidad del ejercito realiza un descubrimiento horripilante: un modernisimo laboratorio secreto en el que han muerto decenas de personas, victimas de espantosos experimentos. El misterioso cientifico al que persiguen, un hombre que, segun se cree, esta trabajando en un arma biologica, huye levandose consigo la sorprendente verdad de su trabajo. Pero deja una pista desconcertante: el Ouroboros, un simbolo que representa una serpiente que se muerde la cola.

Ein unscheinbares Kästchen - das größte Geheimnis der Christenheit. In New York wird eine Ausstellung eröffnet: die kostbarsten Schätze des Vatikans - aber die vier Reiter, die den Abend in einem Blutbad ertränken, haben es allein auf ein verwittertes Holzkästchen abgesehen. Die zufällig anwesende Tess Chaykin ist elektrisiert: Die Angreifer waren wie mittelalterliche Tempelritter gekleidet. FBI-Agent Sean Reilly merkt schnell, dass die junge Archäologin ihm mit ihrem Wissen von unschätzbarem Wert ist. Welches Geheimnis verbarg sich in dem uralten Verschlüsselungsapparat? Was treibt den unsichtbaren Drahtzieher des Anschlags an? Tess und Reilly folgen ihm um die halbe Welt - am Ende erkennen sie, dass sie selbst die Verfolgten sind. DER WELT-BESTSELLER: EINE MILLION VERKAUFTE EXEMPLARE IN DEUTSCHLAND