More real then most readers could imagine. | The Sanctuary

book: The Sanctuary | Raymond Khoury

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	• The Sanctuary Raymond Khoury Dutton Adult, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 23 reviews view larger image
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Not the best of the Genre

This book is an over-glorified search for the Fountain of Youth. More specifically, this book is a cat-and-mouse chase to find a mysterious book revealing secrets to obtain eternal youth. However, it took me a good two-thirds of the book to really get into the premise. The plot is very formulaic, containing the redundant flashbacks to 18th Century Europe, and a modern day mystery connected to these events. While the story has potential, it is Khoury's writing that lacks finesse. He could have easily written the same book in half the pages. He often reiterates the same thoughts paragraph after paragraph. And one of the most annoying tendencies he has is to interrupt sentences - much like I'm doing here - with other ideas or explanations. It seems like he underestimates his reader by pointing out the obvious, yet his superfluous use of vocabulary contradicts the style. And to add insult to injury, the conclusion was somewhat anti-climactic. I didn't get as much out of this book as I do from others of similar genre. But regardless, Khoury's prior success will help sell this book.

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More real then most readers could imagine.

I first want to say to the other readers who said it's dull and over the top and not believable that it is very real. I know this because I am a Canadian living in Lebanon. My house is on the borders between christians and muslims and I was here during the 2006 war and all the assasinations. Alot of writing in the book is so real for me because I see and hear about awful things happening here that you wouldn't believe. When he rights about the terrorists who kidnap Evelyn, it is so true that there are people like that out here in the middle east. I think people have to have more of an imagination to read this book and know that Raymond is Lebanese and lived here during the civil war and knows alot about what goes down here. I was surprised that people didn't like it.
I think only people who have lived in the middle east could understand this book. Thumbs Up from me.

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In the powerful new thriller from the author of the international bestseller The Last Templar, a geneticist and a CIA agent on a deadly quest to find the most dangerous book in the world discover a secret that has destroyed everyone in its path for centuries

Naples, 1750. In the dead of night, three men with swords burst into the palazzo of a marquis. Their leader, the Prince of San Severo, accuses the marquis of being an imposter, and demands to know a secret only the marquis harbors. In the fight that ensues, the false marquis escapes over the rooftops of Naples, leaving behind a burning palazzo and a raging prince now obsessed with finding his quarry at any cost.

Baghdad, 2003. An army unit on a routine mission makes a horrifying discovery: a state- of-the-art, concealed lab where dozens?men, women, children?have died, the subjects of gruesome experiments. The mysterious scientist they were after, a man believed to be working on a bioweapon and known only as the hakeem?the doctor?escapes, taking with him the startling truth about his work. A puzzling clue is left behind: a circular symbol of a snake feeding on its own tail.

As the power of the symbol comes to light, revealing the centuries of destruction left in its wake, one unsuspecting woman stands at the center of a conspiracy that could change the world forever. In the masterful hands of international bestseller Raymond Khoury, The Sanctuary delivers the same rapid-fire suspense and provocative scholarship that made The Last Templar a coast-to-coast blockbuster.

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