Raymond Khoury Knihy

Agent FBI Sean Reilly a archeologička a spisovateľka Tess Chaykinová – hlavné postavy thrilleru Posledný templár – sú späť. Tentoraz sa príbeh začína v Mexiku v osemnástom storočí a možno aj oveľa skôr a pokračuje v súčasnosti. Keď Reillymu zazvoní telefón, ozve sa hlas, ktorý nepočul už päť rokov. Nemôže ignorovať zúfalú prosbu o pomoc. A najmä dve slová, ktoré mu navždy zmenia život. Bez váhania sa vydá na cestu, aby pomohol priateľke, netuší však, že ho čaká neľútostný boj s časom, gangom únoscov a s krutým mexickým narkobarónom známym pod prezývkou El Brujo, Čarodejník. Pokúša sa sledovať dve odlišné stopy – jednu z dávnej minulosti a druhú z horúcej súčasnosti. Obidve vedú k záhadnej droge, ktorá vyvoláva v ľuďoch také ohromujúce zážitky, že by napokon mohla stiahnuť ľudstvo do víru bolesti a chaosu. Diablov elixír je nepochybne najosobnejší a najpútavejší príbeh, ktorý čitateľa udrží v napätí až do úplného konca. Je plný života, energie, ale aj krásnych charakterov a príťažlivých scén. Diela Raymonda Khouryho sú preložené do viac ako štyridsiatich jazykov, dlhodobo sa udržujú na rebríčkoch bestsellerov a celosvetové náklady kníh prekračujú 5 miliónov výtlačkov.

Svätá zem je stratená. Myšlienka, ktorá Martina z Carmaux ustavične prenasledovala, v ňom svojou krutou konečnosťou vyvoláva väčšiu hrôzu než hordy bojovníkov, valiace sa cez otvor v múre.

Americký televízny štáb nakrúca rozpad ľadovca pri brehoch večne zamrznutej Antarktídy, keď sa na oblohe náhle objaví čudný svetelný symbol. Ten istý symbol maľuje na steny jaskyne v rozpálenej egyptskej púšti kňaz, ktorého svet pozná ako dobrodinca a svätého muža. Televízny štáb sa vydáva do Egypta v nádeji, že vyrieši záhadu znamenia, ktoré sa tentoraz objavilo na oblohe nad Grónskom. Svet je otrasený aj radostne vzrušený. Ľudia hovoria o druhom príchode Ježiša Krista, iní poukazujú na to, že znamenie sa zjavuje nad najohrozenejšími miestami planéty. Niektorí vedci však pochybujú a snažia sa zistiť, čo sa za zvláštnym úkazom skrýva. Nesúrodá trojica ľudí, každý z nich poháňaní inou túžbou sa rozhodnú vyriešiť záhadné znamenie.

Autor bestselleru Posledný templár prichádza s novým fascinujúcim trilerom, kde sa prepletá dávna minulosť s aktuálnou prítomnosťou. Americká genetička Mia a agent CIA Corben spoja svoje sily, aby vypátrali starý vzácny kódex, ktorý v priebehu stáročí prináša smrť každému, kto sa ho pokúsi nájsť.

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.

In this thrilling sequel to "The Last Templar," FBI agent Sean Reilly navigates the Vatican's secret archives to rescue Tess Chaykin from a vengeful terrorist. The narrative intertwines with a historical siege in 1203 Constantinople, where Templars steal explosive secrets that could change everything.

1) Raymond Khoury: Znamení Na obloze nad jižním pólem se objeví záhadná záře a miliony lidí po celém světě tento jev fascinovaně sledují v televizi. Je to přírodní úkaz, nebo jde o něco nadpřirozeného? Gracie Loganová a její filmový štáb jsou odhodláni znamení sledovat, ať je zavedekamkoli. 2) Terri Irwinová: Steve a já V roce 2006 tragicky zemřel neohrožený „lovec krokodýlů“ Steve Irwin. Jeho žena Terri vypráví, jak se s pohledným Australanem sršícím energií seznámila, jak se do sebe zamilovali a vydali se na společnou cestu životem naplněným vášnivou láskou k přírodě. 3) Jojo Moyesová: Krasojezdkyně V zapadlém koutě Londýna učí bývalý drezurní jezdec Henri Lachapelle svou vnučku Sarah a svého koně „vzdorovat gravitaci“ tak, jak to sám kdysi dělal v elitní jezdecké škole ve Francii. Do jejich života zasáhne katastrofa a čtrnáctileté Sarah nezbývá nic jiného, než se životem protloukat sama. 4) William G. Tapply: Zatvrzelci Bostonský právník Brady Coyne má v rozvodovém řízení zastupovat válečného fotoreportéra v Iráku Guse Shawa. Situace se zkomplikuje Gusovou smrtí, která vypadá jako sebevražda, ovšem Brady ani Gusova sestra, Bradyho dávná láska Alex, si nejsou jistí, zda Gusovi na onen svět někdo nepomohl.

"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."

<b> <blockquote>Another cutting-edge thriller set at the intersection of science, religion, and history from the bestselling author of The Last Templar<p>New York Times bestselling author Raymond Khoury, whose debut novel, The Last Templar, has sold more than a million copies in the United States, and whose second, The Sanctuary, was also a major national bestseller, returns with The Sign. Like the first two, this new thriller combines gripping contemporary suspense with a high-concept mystery rooted in history, philosophy, religion, and science. And like those novels, it is bound for bestseller lists nationwide.</p></blockquote> </b>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.<p>Meanwhile in a dusty bar in Egypt, a dozen men are lazily discussing the state of the world when the brilliant, glowing symbol on the television stops them cold. One man breaks out in a sweat, crosses himself repeatedly, and rushes out of the bar muttering the same phrase over and over again: It can't be.</p><p>Across the Internet and around the globe, a stunning controversy threatens to consume the world: Has God finally decided to reveal himself? Or is something more sinister at hand?</p><p> <b>Raymond Khoury/Steve Berry interview</b> </p><p>STEVE BERRY: Your new thriller, THE SIGN. I'm gonna come right out and say it: I think it's your best one yet. What do you think?</p><p>RAMOND KHOURY: Tough call. It's my new baby, and much as I adore its elder siblings, it does have that newborn magic to it.</p><p>STEVE: Trust me, it is. It's also a bit of a departure from your first two books, in that it doesn't have the past-and-present storylines. Knowing how stories kind of take on a life of their own, that wasn't a conscious decision from the get-go, was it?</p><p>RAYMOND KHOURY: No, it wasn't premeditated. It's just the way the story came out. The whole story happens in the present. It takes place over a few manic days, I think you're familiar with that pacing, right? And it deals with the present, it's about a what if situation that's very today and now, there's a mystery, something to figure out, but there's no throwback to the past, no long lost secret to uncover.</p><p>STEVE BERRY: It's also very topical. Your editors must be pleased.</p><p>RAYMOND: I guess it happened that way because the story came out of some very strong feelings I had, feelings about what was going on around the world, in the US and abroad.</p><p>STEVE: Tell me about that process. Where the story came from.</p><p>RAYMOND: It's where they all come from, isn't it? That kernel, that one thought or one observation you have that just sticks and triggers a book, the one that bugs you late at night and that you can't shake. This one came to me while watching the news one day, and every item, one after another, it was all bad news. Not just bad, but it was like a lot of people were behaving so insanely in so many places around the world, and, sadly, a lot of it was fuelled by the manipulation or distortion of religious faith.</p><p>STEVE: By intolerance?</p><p>RAYMOND: Exactly. Intolerance and closed minds. And it got me thinking. About how divided we are, about how so many people all over the world believe in the absolute infallibility of their faith and how it rules every aspect of their lives, you know what I mean, we're right, everyone else is wrong, that medieval mindset and wondering if anything could ever unite the planet under a single faith.</p><p>STEVE: One global religion. RAYMOND: Well, imagine if something did happen that convinced everyone that what we had until now, all these different religions that have grown over the last few thousand years, what if something new came along that was so overwhelming that it was impossible to ignore? Would we listen? Would we drop our previous faiths and embrace it?</p><p>STEVE: But your book's about much more than that. Without wanting to give too much away, it's really a political thriller, isn't it?</p><p>RAYMOND: It's always so hard to talk about a book without giving too much away.</p><p>STEVE: It's the fine line we walk.</p><p>RAYMOND: True. But yes, you're right, it's really about the absolute power something like that would bring, and how it could be abused. Cause above all else, it's a thriller. There's got to be a brilliantly dastardly scheme, right?</p><p>STEVE: Always. And this one certainly is dastardly. One thing I've noticed, though, in all three of your books so far, they're all, essentially, about the big questions that face us: why we believe, whether or not we have to die. Religion, longevity, life and death, science vs. faith ... Big questions. And in this one, you revisit, though in a completely different way, the power of religion, the good it can bring as well as the bad, something that was also central to <i>The Last Templar</i>. Will this always be your signature genre, books that have a big, central theme at their core?</p><p>RAYMOND: You asked me earlier about where the story came from. For me, in order to get excited about a book, it has to have a big central theme about how we live at its heart, something I'm interested in exploring. It's got to be about something I care about deeply. That's what drives the story and the characters forward for me. That's what I hope makes the books stand out. That they're not just page-turners, which ain't easy in itself, but that they're also about something. I see it in your books too. A point of view about things, a passion for laying out interesting information about a topic that interests you. Michael Crichton used to do that very successfully. Dan Brown, of course, does it brilliantly. That's what makes the books worth writing, I think.</p><p>STEVE: And in reading the book, it's clear you still had tons of research to do, even though there isn't a historic mystery to unravel?</p><p>RAYMOND: Absolutely. Some of it was about history, the monasteries in Egypt, for one. Again, part of the story, organically. Had to be done, and we do love our history, don't we?</p><p>STEVE: Guilty as charged.</p><p>RAYMOND: But for this book, I didn't need to do that much of it's nothing like what you did for THE CHARLEMAGNE PURSUIT, for instance. Which I loved, by the way. Particularly since you beat me to using the Voynich Manuscript in a story!</p><p>STEVE: We do seem to be spookily in sync with our writing as further evidenced by THE SIGN's opening in Antarctica?</p><p>RAYMOND: I know!</p><p>STEVE: So tell me, Matt and Gracie. Are we going to see them again?</p><p>RAYMOND: I don't know. On the one hand, I envy your situation with Cotton Malone, you've got a solid anchor for your books, you're building this great world around him, his son and Stephanie and Henrik and Cassiopeia, who I hope we see again real soon, and it's meaty and it's epic and like the rest of your readers, I'm hooked and I want to know what they do next. You've got that, Lee Child has had it since day one with Reacher, Harlan Coben with Myron Bolitar, the list goes on. Great characters. I'd love to do that one day, but it has to feel right. I wasn't in that frame of mind in my first two books, certainly the world after the end of THE SANCTUARY would be a very different place from the world Mia started out in at the beginning of that book. Tess and Reilly, I could maybe bring back. A lot of fans have asked for that. But with THE SIGN, Iinitely think Matt and Gracie are characters that I could bring back. I'd like to put them through another wringer, and it feels like it would come naturally. But before I do that, I'm writing the next book which introduces a new lead character, so they'll be getting a bit of a breather.</p><p>STEVE: They sure can use it. Good luck with the book.</p><p>RAYMOND: Thank you.</p>

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.

1291. La Terrasanta è perduta. Mentre i musulmani irrompono nella fortezza di Acri, seminando morte e distruzione, a quattro cavalieri Templari viene affidata una missione importantissima e segreta: portare lontano, oltre il mare, uno scrigno dal contenuto misterioso. Settecento anni dopo, all'inaugurazione di una mostra al Metropolitan Museum di New York, quattro imponenti cavalieri con le insegne dei Templari irrompono sulla scena e trafugano un oggetto descritto come "codificatore polifunzionale a rotori". Ma cos'è esattamente? Mentre l'FBI segue le piste più disparate, un cardinale rintraccia lo schema del marchingegno nell'Archivio Segreto del Vaticano... e capisce che non sarebbe mai dovuto uscire di lì.

A serial novel featuring contributions by twenty-six masters of suspense follows detective Jon Nunn as he re-opens a ten-year-old case to discover if the wrong person was convicted and put to death for the murder of art curator Christopher Thomas.

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.