Raymond Khoury Livres

1916. Dans une mine de Sibérie, les ouvriers se mettent subitement à s'entretuer. Quelques minutes plus tard, deux hommes, dont le fidèle confident du tsar, Raspoutine, font sauter la mine, enterrant ainsi toute trace du carnage. De nos jours. Un diplomate russe est défenestré à Manhattan, depuis l'appartement d'un couple apparemment sans histoire, les Sokolov. Une course contre la montre s'engage alors entre Sean Reilly, du FBI, les services secrets russes et la CIA, pour retrouver le couple porté disparu et éviter qu'une technologie terrifiante, remontant à la Russie impériale, et utilisée pendant la guerre froide ne tombe entre de mauvaises mains.

Et si une plante miraculeuse avait le pouvoir de repousser les frontières entre la vie et la mort ? Mexique, 1741. Un missionnaire jésuite découvre l'existence d'une plante légendaire. D'après les croyances amérindiennes, quiconque s'en emparerait deviendrait l'égal d'un dieu. Entre de mauvaises mains, elle pourrait changer la face du monde. Etats-Unis, de nos jours. Sean Reilly, agent du FBI, reçoit un coup de téléphone d'une ex-petite amie, Michelle Martinez, rencontrée cinq ans auparavant lors d'une mission au Mexique. Attaquée chez elle par un gang, elle appelle Reilly à la rescousse. En Californie, le chemin de ce dernier ne tarde pas à croiser celui de Navarro, un baron de la drogue en quête d'une plante aux vertus mystiques. Surnommé « El Brujo » – le sorcier –, il est bien décidé à ne laisser rien ni personne lui barrer la route.

La suite très attendue du Dernier Templier. Constantinople, 1203. Tandis que les croisés s'apprêtent à assiéger la ville, des Templiers s'infiltrent dans la bibliothèque impériale pour dérober des documents secrets qui ne doivent pas tomber entre les mains pontificales. Le Vatican, de nos jours. Sean Reilly, agent du FBI, a le privilège de consulter les archives de l'Inquisition, auxquelles seule la garde rapprochée du pape a accès. Et il va trahir la confiance du Saint-Siège. En effet, la femme qu'il aime a été enlevée et la clé de sa liberté réside dans l'un des documents archivés, une histoire secrète des Templiers...

Romanul a fost tradus in peste 30 de limbi si declarat de catre New York Times #1 Bestseller. Bestseller New York Times pentru aproape doi ani, romanul lui Raymond Khoury impleteste magistral fictiunea cu istoria. Ultimul templier , o carte ce se citeste cu sufletul la gura, a fost ecranizat de NBC, intr-o serie de succes. 1291, Regatul Latin al Ierusalimului. Secolul XXI, Manhattan. Ce legatura exista intre cele doua momente si ce cauta un agent FBI in tenebrele istoriei? Ultimul mare mister, ultima speranta a umanitatii si secretul ultimilor cavaleri. Tezaurul cavalerilor templieri... un secret pe care Raymond Khoury il dezvaluie intr-un thriller palpitant. O cheie pentru portile ferecate ale istoriei, o calatorie fara tihna inapoi, de-a lungul secolelor, o goana fara oprire dupa ultimul mare mister al omenirii, dupa cea mai mare taina a cavalerilor templieri. Cavalerii templieri, mister fascinant al istoriei, sunt protagonistii unui thriller fara egal, care a incantat milioane de cititori din lumea intreaga, fiind tradus in peste 30 de limbi. Un arheolog din Manhattan face o incursiune palpitanta in secretele unei epoci indepartate. Povestea incepe in 1291, in Regatul Latin al Ierusalimului, si ajunge in America secolului XXI. Ultimul templier este in actiune: trebuie sa salveze legenda Ordinului cu orice pret. Iar omul modern trebuie sa dezlege una dintre marile enigme neelucidate ale universului.

Bagdad, 2003. L'armée américaine fait une découverte macabre : un laboratoire souterrain dans lequel sont entassés les cadavres de dizaines d'individus ayant visiblement servi de cobayes pour de terribles expériences. L'auteur de ces supplices, surnommé le « Hakim » – le docteur, en arabe –, parvient à s'enfuir. Seul indice: sur le mur d'une des cellules de torture a été tracé un ouroboros, le serpent qui se mord la queue, symbole d'éternité. Beyrouth, 2006. Mia, généticienne en mission au Liban, assiste en pleine rue à l'enlèvement de sa mère, Evelyn. Cette dernière, archéologue passionnée, négociait l'achat d'un livre rare, un codex orné d'un ouroboros, qu'elle tenait absolument à se procurer. Prête à tout pour retrouver sa mère, Mia fait équipe avec Jim Corben, un agent de la CIA qui établit un lien entre le codex et les crimes perpétrés en Irak trois ans auparavant. Pour sauver Evelyn, Jim et Mia se lancent dans une véritable course contre la montre à travers tout le Moyen-Orient. De Beyrouth à Bagdad en passant par la Turquie, ils tentent de comprendre ce que recèle ce codex, que des alchimistes se transmettent depuis des siècles au péril de leur vie. Cartésienne, Mia refuse d'accorder du crédit aux pistes ésotériques. Mais de surprenantes révélations l'attendent, certaines intimement liées au mystère de ses propres origines...

More than 250 years after a pretender marquis escapes the decimated palazzo of his vengeful prince, an American Army unit discovers a secret lab in Baghdad where dozens of victims have been subjected to torturous experiments, a finding that places two bold women on the trail of an ancient mystery.

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.

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."

In Antarctica, a scientific expedition drops anchor to witness the cataclysmic breakup of an ice shelf. As investigative reporter Gracie Logan begins her live news feed, a massive, shimmering ball of light suddenly appears in the sky, shapeshifting and enveloping the ship before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived, the entire event witnessed by a shocked world audience. On a mountaintop in Egypt, a solitary priest contemplates the magnificence of God's creation spread out before him. His presence in this holy place is a mystery even to him; he is certain only of the elusive power of the calling he feels and the compulsive need to record in writing-and to draw-the vision which repeatedly consumes him. And in Boston, reformed car thief Matt Sherwood finds out that his brother's death may not be all it seemed to be-and that it may be related to the stunning controversy that's spinning out of control and threatening to erupt into violence and chaos. The entire world holds its breath as Gracie and Matt chase down the story of a lifetime: Has God finally decided to reveal himself? Or is something more sinister at hand?