The Devil's Elixir
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- 15,00 kr
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- 15,00 kr
Publisher Description
FBI agent Sean Reilly has just received a call from his past - and finds himself in a desperate race against time to save a woman he once loved and her four-year-old child.
From the bestselling author of the TEMPLAR thrillers.
[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...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An amazingly powerful drug provides the MacGuffin for Khoury's exciting thriller with a paranormal twist. Narco kingpin Raoul Navarro (aka El Brujo, the shaman), who for years has been ingesting a medicinal herb known in 18th-century Mexico as the Devil's Elixir, sees a huge market for the drug if the chemical can be synthesized into a convenient pill form ("It'll make meth seem as boring as aspirin"). FBI agent Sean Reilly is at home in Mamaroneck, N.Y., when he receives a panicked phone call from ex-girlfriend and former DEA agent Michelle Martinez, who says she's fled her San Diego home after armed men broke in and shot her boyfriend. Catching the next flight to California, Sean discovers a strange link between Michelle's four-year-old son and the Devil's Elixir. Khoury has to work hard to make the drug's earth-shattering ramifications believable, but fans of the author's bestselling Templar novels (The Templar Salvation, etc.) will play along.
Customer Reviews
Not up to his previous work
This book is a far cry from the historical mysteries Khoury has previsously delivered. It fails by comparison. Tess Chaykin's character has been reduced to a simple side kick and it could as well have had an entirely different Gallery of characters.
If this is your first book by Khoury you may well enjoy the story, then I Can only recommend to pick up the templar books.