The devil's elixir

518 pages

English language

Published May 8, 2012

ISBN:
978-0-451-23756-9
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OCLC Number:
747529786

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Overview: Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin, the heroes of Raymond Khoury's New York Times bestselling Templar novels, return in an edge-of-your-seat thriller that reaches from the present day back to 1700s Mexico-and beyond. What if there was a drug, previously lost to history in the jungles of Central America, capable of inducing an experience so momentous-and so shocking-that it might shake the very foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law launched a ruthless, no-holds-barred pursuit to get their hands on it? What if FBI agent Sean Reilly and archaeologist Tess Chaykin were the only ones who could stop the unthinkable from happening? And what if they're already too late?

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I have somehow missed reading Raymond Khoury, despite him having four consecutive New York Times best sellers.

The Devil's Elixir features characters from Khoury’s previous novels but it works effectively as a stand alone.

Not having read Khoury before I had no idea what to expect. Prior to chapter one he quotes both Carl Sagan[1] :


There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.

and Dr Harold Lief commenting on the life and work of Dr Ian Stevenson[2]:

Either he is making a colossal mistake, or he will be known as 'the Galileo of the 20th century'

These quotes become important towards the end of the novel.

The Story

We begin with the discovery of a rare hallucinogenic drug by a Spanish Jesuit, Eusebio, a missionary in Mexico in the 1700’s. We are, …

Subjects

  • United States
  • Drug traffic
  • United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Fiction

Places

  • Central America