Customer Reviews
all one needs in a thriller - just bloody fantastic - By: Klaus Meyer, 04 Aug 2008 
I have to admit that I just came by this book as I was despeartedly searching for something exciting without reallly knowning what I am looking. Maybe you know this feeling. In the novel section with the semi-religious thrillers I saw Raymond Khouray's second book & first thought that this is another one a la Da Vince Code. But I bought it nevertheless & - to my own surprise - I was hooked with page 1.
It is fast running thriller, based in the present with some historical background. The characters are very different & develop with this plot. They are no sterotypes & do not talk or act like robots. Is involvement in the BBC hit thriller "Waking the Dead" clearly shows here. Not that this a copy of that show but the charracters are much rounder & interesting than in the usual thrillers. That the story is mainly set in the Middle East, Beirout & here is background is an asset as he can describe country, city & atmosphere with much knowledge & passion. I like his style of writing a lot. And before I forget: the plot is just fantastic.I could not put this book down. I think the author can become very quickly one of my great favorites.
Gripping and Atmospheric - By: J. Chippindale, 12 Sep 2007 Raymond Khoury was born in the Lebanon, but at the outbreak of civil war in 1975, he moved to New York, eventuallly returning to the Lebanon after his graduation & attended the American university, studying architecture, only to be evacuated out of the city by the American Marine Corp because the civil war erupted again. Fortunately for him he had just completed his degree. Since then he has had a varied an interesting life.
In his more recent past Raymond, Khoury has been working as a screenwriter & producer both in London & in Los Angeles. Since the release of his international bestseller The Last Templar & completing work on the BBC hit show Spooks, known as MI:5 in the US, & the Emmy-award winning BBC series Waking The Dead, he is now concentrating on his novels.
In this his second book a geneticist & a CIA agent become embroiled in a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world & uncover a secret that has wrecked everyone in its path for centuries . . .
