Acre, 1291. Als de stad brandt onder de hevige aanval van de mannen van de sultan, hijst de Falcon Temple de zeilen, een groepje ridders met zich meevoerend en een geheimzinnige kist die hen door de Grootmeester van de Orde is toevertrouwd. Maar het schip verdwijnt zonder een spoor achter te laten. New York, heden. Vier als tempeliers uitgedoste ruiters bestormen het openingsgala van een tentoonstelling gewijd aan de Schatten van het Vaticaan, en stelen tijden een bloedige, gewelddadige overval een middeleeuwse decoder. Voor FBI-agent Sean Reilly en archeologe Tess Chaykin is dit nog maar het begin van een dodelijk kat-en-muisspel met meedogenloze moordenaars, waarbij ze binnen de kortste tijd drie continenten aandoen, op zoek naar de laatste rustplaats van de Falcon Temple en de sleutel tot een eeuwenoud mysterie...
De Tempelier Reeks
Deze spannende serie volgt de meedogenloze detective Sean Reilly en zijn scherpe partner Tess Chaykin terwijl ze zich verdiepen in duistere samenzweringen. Ze ontdekken verborgen organisaties en historische mysteries die de moderne wereld bedreigen. Elk deel levert een krachtige mix van actie, geschiedenis en intellectuele puzzels die lezers op het puntje van hun stoel houden.






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Sperling Paperback - 62: La missione dei quattro cavalieri
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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.
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.
[Published in hardback as THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR.] 'I'm in trouble. Something terrible has happened ... I didn't know who else to call' An unexpected phone call from three thousand miles away. A voice he hadn't heard in more than five years. A desperate cry for help that he couldn't ignore. And two small words that would change everything about his life. FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin are back in another edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from the present day back to 1700s Mexico and, quite possibly, far beyond...
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.
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.