Raymond Khoury

For months FBI Special Agent Reilly has sought the man who kidnapped and brainwashed his five-year-old son. But that man is a highly protected CIA official with no name. Framed for crimes he didn’t commit, Reilly becomes a fugitive. He’s left with no choice but to risk everything to unearth secrets that would shake the country to its core – if he’s ever allowed to get that far.

Acre, AD 1291: As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men, the Falcon Temple sets sail, carrying a small band of knights and a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace.

Present day New York: At the Metropolitan Museum, four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures and, in a brutal and bloody attack, steal an arcane medieval decoder.

For FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin, this is just the start of a deadly game of cat and mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers - and a centuries-old mystery.

The Ottoman Empire has ruled Europe for over 300 years. As a special investigator for the state police, Kamal Agha is committed to keeping the empire safe from threats. So when a naked man covered in tattoos murders a passerby on the banks of the Seine, Kamal is tasked with tracking him down. But the mysterious man's trail leads Kamal to a secret buried deep in the empire's past, a secret that the sultan and his security services will do anything to silence.

FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth floor window. Reilly’s investigation uncovers a deadly search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia ...