Showing results by author "Raymond Khoury"

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....

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.

On a cold, bleak day in 1916, all hell breaks loose in a mining pit in the Ural Mountains. Overcome by a strange paranoia, the miners attack one another, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly's searches for Reed Corrigan, the CIA mindcontrol spook who brainwashed Reilly's son.

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.

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.

Konstantinopel 1203, während des 4. Kreuzzugs: Die Stadt wird belagert. Einige Tempelritter wollen verhindern, dass geheime Dokumente ihres Ordens in die Hände des Feindes fallen, und bezahlen dies mit dem Tod. Rom 2011: FBI-Agent Sean Reilly darf als einer von wenigen Auserwählten das Geheimarchiv des Vatikans nutzen. Als seine Freundin Tess entführt wird, muss er das Vertrauen des Papstes jedoch enttäuschen.

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.

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.

Ein Angestellter des russischen Konsulats wird in New York aus einem Fenster gestoßen und stirbt. Was wollte er in der Wohnung des pensionierten Physiklehrers Leo Sokolov? Dieser ist nach dem Mord spurlos verschwunden. Gemeinsam mit einer russischen Geheimdienstmitarbeiterin macht sich FBI-Agent Sean Reilly auf die Suche nach dem Vermissten. Bald wird klar, dass Sokolov ein ganz anderer ist, als er jahrelang vorgab.

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.

Die Klimaforscher in der Antarktis sind ratlos: Über der einsamen Eiswüste leuchtet ein mysteriöses Zeichen am Himmel - der Beginn einer Serie unheimlicher Ereignisse. Ob bei Konflikten, Klimakatastrophen oder terroristischen Anschlägen - an den unterschiedlichsten Orten der Erde taucht das unheimliche Symbol auf. Doch was kann es bedeuten? Ist es ein Zeichen Gottes oder des Teufels?

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.