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Title details for Rasputin's Shadow by Raymond Khoury - Available

Rasputin's Shadow

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by Raymond Khoury
Richard Ferrone
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On a cold, bleak day in 1916, all hell breaks loose in a mining pit in the Ural Mountains. Overcome by a strange paranoia, the miners attack one another, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men—a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar—hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly's search for Reed Corrigan, the CIA mindcontrol spook who brainwashed Reilly's son, takes a backseat to a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window in Queens. The apartment's owners, a retired physics teacher from Russia and his wife, have gone missing, and further investigation reveals that the former may not be who the FBI believe him to be.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Sean Reilly and Tess Chaykin

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    March 3, 2016

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781470367695
      • File size: 406542 KB
      • Duration: 14:06:57

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 26, 2013
      In the prologue to bestseller Khoury’s lively, if conventional, fourth Templar thriller (after 2011’s The Devil’s Elixir), some Ural Mountain miners go berserk one day in 1916 and start killing each other until an explosion puts them all out of their misery. At the mine entrance, mystic Grigory Rasputin assures his companion, an unnamed man of science, that “we’ve just ensured the salvation of our people” by blowing up the mine. Flash forward to present-day New York City. FBI special agent Sean Reilly looks into the case of a Russian embassy official who’s been thrown to his death from his high-rise apartment building in Queens. Reilly also investigates the disappearance of high school physics teacher Leo Sokolov, a descendant of a member of Rasputin’s inner circle of advisers, who has developed a device that uses microwaves to alter human behavior. Reilly sometimes lets his enthusiasm get in the way of his better judgment in this predictable tale of a weapon with world-devastating potential. Agent: Jay Mandel, WME.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Richard Ferrone's narration adds just the right hint of the sinister to this story of mind manipulation. In 1916, in a mine tunnel in the Urals, a group of miners goes berserk and begins killing one another. Above ground, Grigory Rasputin and "a man of science" push a button and the mine explodes. Fast-forward to the present day and, in Raymond Khoury's latest Sean Reilly adventure, Reilly's still trying to find the CIA agent who brainwashed his son. When a Russian diplomat jumps, or was pushed, to his death from his Queens apartment, Reilly's personal mission is put on hold as he investigates. Ferrone's layered performance creates an atmosphere in which darkness hovers, and when shocking secrets are revealed, his intensity is catching. Exciting listening. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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