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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From the blog...

• UK reviews of Elixir are in…...

  …and, well, me likee very much! The Telegraph triggered my silly uber-grin by calling me “a world-class writer of pure-bred thrillers“: The Guardian added to my glee by saying “the novel works thanks to Khoury’s expert handling of plot” and saying I’m “a craftsman whose muscular prose carries conviction“; then The Times chimed in by saying it’s “rip-roaring action man stuff.” Which it kind of is, and a lot more too… Enjoy!

• A wander down memory lane…...

  Here’s a piece of curio nostalgia if you’re looking for something extra of mine to read… This is actually one of my favourite scripts, it’s the pilot script of an original TV series that came close to happening back in 2003/4 but ultimately didn’t called THE PACK. I wrote it not long after the coalition troops went into Iraq back in 2003, it’s about a bunch of war correspondents working in Baghdad shortly after it fell (but before Saddam and his sons were captured). I spent several months researching it by hanging out with several journos who’s just been out there… Check it out.

• 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.”

• 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!

• …and a couple of great blog reports about Elixir...

  …from Malcolm Campbell at Knightofswords and Mary Ann Smythe at Bookloons.

• 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!