Raymond Khoury
1) The sign
Author
Language
English
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan 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. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the opening gala of a Vatican exhibit attended by archaeologist Tess Chaykin is stormed by four horsemen dressed as Templar Knights who steal an artifact, FBI anti-terrorist specialist Sean Reilly and Tess team up for an investigation.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, 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 is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attache seems to have committed suicide...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, heroes of Raymond Khoury's bestselling Templar thrillers, return in an edge-of-your-seat story that reaches from the present day back to 1800s Mexico-and possibly beyond. What if there was an herb, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law got...
7) Santuario
Author
Publisher
Zeta
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
"El animal que aparecía en la imagen era más que una serpiente: tenía escamas y colmillos exagerados, se asemejaba más a un dragón ... Era una imagen siniestra que rememoraba un miedo primario, una copia amarillenta y desgastada que despedía maldad. La búsqueda de un oscuro secreto, escondido entre las páginas de un libro del 1700, llevará a una genetista y un agente de la CIA a embarcarse en una aventura mortal que les obligará a viajar...
9) La señal
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B/Grupo Zeta
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan 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. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is "the extraordinary odyssey of a 21st-century family stranded in an amazing prehistoric utopia. But beneath Dinotopia's surface, dangers brew. Through it all endures the boundless imagination, courage, and awesome wonder of a family lost in time - the last hope for a world on the verge of extinction." --Container.