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all one needs in a thriller - just bloody fantastic - Rated
I have to admit that I just came by this book as I was despeartedly searching for something exciting without really 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 and first thought that this is another one a la Da Vince Code. But I bought it nevertheless and - 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 and develop with this plot. They are no sterotypes and 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 and interesting than in the usual thrillers. That the story is mainly set in the Middle East, Beirout and here is background is an asset as he can describe country, city and atmosphere with much knowledge and 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 - Rated
Raymond Khoury was born in the Lebanon, but at the outbreak of civil war in 1975, he moved to New York, eventually returning to the Lebanon after his graduation and 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 and producer both in London and in Los Angeles. Since the release of his international bestseller The Last Templar and completing work on the BBC hit show Spooks, known as MI:5 in the US, and the Emmy-award winning BBC series Waking The Dead, he is now concentrating on his novels.
In this his second book a geneticist and a CIA agent become embroiled in a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world and uncover a secret that has wrecked everyone in its path for centuries . . .
