Templar Novel: The Devil's Elixir (Paperback)

from suetu

Third in a series, but works fine as a stand alone As many thrillers as I read, somehow I hadn't yet made it around to Raymond Khoury. So, even though I hadn't read earlier Templar novels featuring Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, I decided to dive right in. Fortunately, Khoury's enough of a pro to ...

from HenriMoreaux

Tess & Reilly return in the third entry of the Templar series, which this time has nothing to do with the Templars, but rather a Mexican drug lord from Reilly's past who believes in reincarnation. Enter a DEA agent with a thirst for revenge, a brainwashed 4 year old and a hookwinked university pr...

from petrichor8

fast paced action, very good read

from repb

Ponderous and too complicated to fully enjoy. A mad Mexican narcotics character driven to any means possible to help decode some oddball ancient Indian narcotic .... yada yada. Way too long for the message.

from dpbrewster

I am a fan of Khoury's other books, but I have to say this is his weakest effort to date. Not a bad book, but not up to his prior standards. Plotting and pacing seems a bit forced. Maybe the change to using a first-person narrative. I get the sense Khoury struggled with this one. Nonetheless it r...