Raymond Khoury

Raymond Khoury (* 1960 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a writer and screenwriter , famous for his thriller Scriptum .

biography

Raymond Khoury was born in Lebanon but moved to Rye , New York , when the civil war broke out in 1975 . After finishing school, he returned to Lebanon to study architecture at the American University of Beirut . There he illustrated several children's books for Oxford University Press . When the civil war broke out again in 1984 , he left Lebanon again and went to London . Due to the poor labor market situation in the mid-80s, he also completed an MBA program at the European Institute of Business Administration in Fontainebleau . He then worked as an investment banker for Banque Paribas Capital Markets in London.

On a business trip to the Bahamas , he met a Wall Street banker who had contacts in the film business. Together with him he developed an idea for a film, and when the drafts of the script did not meet their expectations, he quickly wrote his own. His first two scripts were nominated for a Fulbright Fellowship in Screenwriting Award , so he retired entirely from banking.

Since then he has written scripts for productions in Los Angeles and London. Scriptum is based on the subject of Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown . The novel was filmed in 2008 under the title Scriptum - The Last Knight Templar and had its world premiere on January 25, 2009.

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Novels

• Immortalis ("The Sanctuary"). Wunderlich Verlag, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-8052-0835-2 .

• Audiobook: Immortalis . Read by Wolfram Koch , Dicky Hank u. a. The audio publishing house, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89813-738-6 . (Reading, 5 CDs, 374 min.)

• Menetekel ("The Sign"). Translated by Frank Böhmert , Wunderlich Verlag, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-8052-0836-9 .

• Audiobook: Menetekel . Read by Johannes Steck , Der Audio-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89813-897-0 . (Reading, 6 CDs, 422 min.)

Sean Reilly & Tess Chaykin series

• Scriptum ("The Last Templar"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-24208-7 .

• Audiobook: Scriptum . Read by Heikko Deutschmann . The Audio Verlag , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89813-521-7 . (Reading, 5 CDs, 388 min.)

• Dogma ("The Templar Salvation"). Translated by Anja Schünemann, Rowohlt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25638-7 .

• Audiobook: Dogma . Read by Simon Jäger , Der Audio-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86231-075-3 . (Reading, 6 CDs, 457 min.)

• Memoria ("The Devil's Elixir"). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2012, ISBN 3-499-25976-1 .
• Furia ("Rasputin's Shadow"). Piper Verlag 2015, ISBN 3-492-06011-0 .
• Malum ("The End Game"). Piper Paperback 2016, ISBN 3-492-06028-5 .

script

• A journalist, a minister and a conservative group ( Spooks , part 31).
• Dinotopia .

Web links

• Raymond Khoury's official website
• Raymond Khoury in the Internet Movie Database (English)