“A fine thriller to start the year with” –Booklist
The new Reilly & Tess thriller is here
Set in California and Mexico, with a long-lost drug that could change the world, a ruthless and vicious kingpin known as "El Brujo"--the sorcerer--and a mystery that goes back to the lost folds of the Sierra Madre in the days of the Conquistadors... read the book reviewers and readers are raving about!
The long-awaited sequel
Now out in paperback and eBook
Four years after the international blockbuster THE LAST TEMPLAR, Reilly and Tess are back, rushing from Jordan to Rome, Istanbul, and the Turkish hinterland, hot on the blood-soaked trail of the Templars' lost legacy while battling an uncompromising Iranian agent who's hell-bent on revenge...
About me
Well, since you asked... I was born in Beirut, a Scorpio and the youngest of three. The civil war broke out there when I was 14 and my parents, in a noble effort to keep us alive into adulthood, wisely moved us to Rye, NY.
I stayed there until I graduated from Rye Country Day School, then, intent on thwarting my parents' nurturing instincts, I decided to go back to Lebanon to study architecture at the American University of Beirut. Which, in hindsight, wasn't as nutty a decision as you might think. Those years, marred by repeated flare-ups of fighting and a couple of invasions, were emotionally taxing, harrowing, sometimes dangerous, often maddeningly frustrating, but always intense in the most visceral sense of the word and, weirdly enough, I wouldn't have missed them for the world. Maybe that's the Scorpio in me...
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- A lovely weekend treat... in the form of Jeremy Jehu's four-starred review of The Devil's Elixir in today's... http://t.co/qZBM84y7
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- @ericmblack I like your picks, Eric!
- With @BorowitzReport and @KimJongNumberUn on the tweet deck, I'm actually wishing for more debates
- Is anyone watching these debates other than in the hope of coming up with material for some witty tweets?
From the blog...
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A great weekend treat…...
…in the form of Jeremy Jehu reviewing THE DEVIL’S ELIXIR in The Telegraph (and giving it four stars):
“Gothically gloomy New Year is, you’ll have gathered, prime time for publishers hoping to propel authors onto the Dan Brown bandwagon. By way of relief, here’s Raymond Khoury jumping off. Surfing the post-Da Vinci marketing wave brought him success while also revealing him as a world-class writer of pure-bred thrillers who urgently needed to dump the cod-mystical “code/conspiracy” tat before joining Connelly, Child, Crais & Co at the top table–a feat this achieves with aplomb.”
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Two new interviews…...
A really fun interview by author Richard Gazala, one of my oldest buddies and the proud possessor of a very sharp wit, and an interview from Bookreporter.com along with their great review of The Devil’s Elixir!
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…and a couple of great blog reports about Elixir...
…from Malcolm Campbell at Knightofswords and Mary Ann Smythe at Bookloons.
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On the ITW (International Thriller Writers) website right now…...
…a fun interview with me by author Brett King about the new book and a whole lot more. Brett’s a thriller writer, and his questions were a particular delight to answer, take a look!
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This review says it all…...
Without saying too much! A great early review from Kirkus, hot off the presses…
Lust for a potent, mind-ripping drug brings only trouble and dead bodies in this fast-paced thriller set primarily in Mexico and Southern California.
In 1741 Mexico, a Jesuit priest has an extraordinary experience that may destroy his soul. Read the rest of this entry »
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Early reviews for The Devil’s Elixir...
“Big-time fun.” –Library Journal
“An exciting thriller with a paranormal twist.” –Publishers Weekly
Feelin’ good, Billy Ray!