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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.

As the burning city of Acre falls from the hands of the West in 1291, a young Templar knight, his mentor, and a handful of others escape to the sea carrying a mysterious chest. In present day Manhattan, four masked horsemen dressed as Templar Knights steal a strange device. In the aftermath, an FBI investigation is led by anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly. Soon, he and archaeologist Tess Chaykin are drawn into the dark, hidden history of the crusading knights.

Constantinople, 1203: As the rapacious armies of the Fourth Crusade lay siege to the city, a secretive band of Templars infiltrate the imperial library. Their target: a cache of documents that must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Doge of Venice. They escape with three heavy chests, filled with explosive secrets that these men will not live long enough to learn. Vatican City, present day: FBI agent Sean Reilly infiltrates the Pope's massive Vatican Secret Archives of the Inquisition....

FBI special Agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a delicate case. A Russian diplomat seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a sixth-floor window in Queens, New York. The apartment’s owners are missing, while a faceless killer known only as Koschey - “the Deathless” - is roaming the city and leaving a trail of death in his wake.

In Antarctica, a scientific expedition drops anchor for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived - the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience.

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 300 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.

Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's best-selling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico-and possibly beyond.

Acre, AD 1291: 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.

From the best-selling author of The Last Templar, an action-packed adventure thriller of an ancient mystery and its deadly impact on the present. 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.

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar, el audio libro en español del bestseller del New York Times, La Orden del Temple, escrita por Raymond Khoury. En 1921, el ultimo templario salio de la Tierra Santa, llevando un cargamento que contiene objetos con un poder incalculable. Se dice que es un secreto que llena de terror a la Iglesia y que puede precipitar la destrucción brutal de la Orden del Temple.

Akko, 1291. Mens den sidste by i Det Hellige Land faldt for de muslimske hære, flygtede en lille flok tempelriddere om bord på Tempelfalken. Med sig havde de et skrin som for alt i verden skulle bringes til den franske stormester. Skibet nåede aldrig i havn.

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.

ET SI UNE DÉCOUVERTE POUVAIT CHANGER LE MONDE ? SON FUTUR, SON PRÉSENT ET MÊME SON PASSÉ... Istanbul, 1682 : Mehmed IV, sultan de l'Empire ottoman, s'apprête à lancer le second siège de Vienne, alors capitale du Saint-Empire romain, quand un mystérieux visiteur s'introduit dans sa chambre. L'homme, couvert d'étranges tatouages, déclare au souverain pouvoir l'aider à mener à bien ses rêves de conquête.

Kamal Agha is a patriot. A Special Investigator for the secret police, Kamal is part of the battle against increasing political turmoil throughout the continent. But the Caliphate's iron fist spares no one, and Kamal's own family has attracted the regime's ever-watchful eye. Into his troubled life comes a mysterious stranger, Ayman Rasheed, found near the banks of the River Seine, naked and covered in tattoos. Tattoos which hint at an enormous secret - one which has changed the history of the world beyond recognition.

Konstantinopel, 1203: Everard af Tyrus og 5 andre tempelriddere sniger sig ind i Konstantinopel og stjæler tre trækister fra Imperiebiblioteket. Istanbul, i dag: Den iranske historieprofessor Behrouz Sharafi bliver stoppet på gaden af en mand, der ved alt om Sharafis forskning og hans fund af et gammelt brev. Det bliver begyndelsen på et mareridt. Vatikanstaten, 2 måneder senere: FBI-agenten Sean Reilly er sammen med professor Sharafi på vej til et møde i Vatikanet. Han har desperat brug for hjælp.

Eine Ausstellungseröffnung in New York gerät zu einem grausigen Blutbad. Vier Reiter, gekleidet in Roben der Tempelritter, entwenden neben Kostbarkeiten des Vatikans auch ein unscheinbares, verwittertes Holzkästchen. Ein Fall für FBI-Agent Sean Reilly. Zusammen mit der jungen Archäologin Tess taucht er ein in die geheimnisvolle Geschichte des Templerordens. Eine dramatische Jagd nach einem sagenumwobenen Schatz – voller Neid, Verrat und Tempo. Der Sensationserfolg von Raymond Khoury nun auch als Hörbuch – packend umgesetzt mit Heikko Deutschmann.

Bagdad – 2003: En amerikansk soldat træder ind i en bunkeragtig bygning og gør en forfærdende opdagelse: Rummene er indrettet som hospitalsstuer, men det har ikke været helbredelse, folk i huset beskæftigede sig med!

Libanon – nutiden: ærkæologen Evelyn kontaktes af en af sine gamle kolleger fra Irak, der skræmt fra vid og sans søger hjælp til at få asyl i USA. ‘Adgangsbilletten’ vil være et gammelt kodeks, der på omslaget viser en slange, der æder sin egen hale.

FBI-agent Sean Reilly modtager et højst uventet opkald, en desperat bøn om hjælp fra en gammel ven, han ikke har hørt fra i fem år. Uden tøven tager han af sted, men før han får set sig om, befinder han sig i et dødsensfarligt kapløb med tiden, med kidnappere, med en brutal mexicansk narkobaron og endda med sit eget lands myndigheder. Jagten er sat ind på hemmeligheden bag et stof med en så unik og kraftig effekt, at det vil kunne ryste hele den vestlige civilisations fundament.