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Ever since shopping his first book around to any and all publishers that he could to try and get some interest in the novel that turned out to be the wildly popular Contest, Matthew Reilly has been one of Australia's most popular thriller authors thanks largely to his all-out action approach to his books. Every novel is a heart-pounding thrill-ride that never lets up from the first page to the last. |
The Shane Schofield series
| Ice Station (1998) ***Buy*** | Scarecrow (2003) ***Buy*** |
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Area 7 (2001) ***Buy*** |
Hell Island (2007) ***Buy*** |
The Jack West Jr series
Non-series books
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Hover Car Racer (2004) ***Buy*** | |
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Temple (1999) ***Buy*** |
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Contest : New York State Library. A silent sanctuary of knowledge; a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and spiralling staircases.
For Doctor Stephen Swain and his daughter, Holly, it is the site of a nightmare. The rules are simple: Seven contestants will enter, only one will leave. With his daughter in arms, Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying flight for survival. The stakes are high, the odds are brutal. He can choose to run, to hide or to fight - but if he wants to live, he has to win. For in this contest, unless you leave as the victor, you do not leave at all |
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Ice Station : At a remote ice station in Antarctica, a team of US scientists has made an amazing discovery. They have found something buried deep beneath the coastal ice shelf. Something trapped inside a 100-million-year-old layer of ice. Something made of metal.
It is the discovery of a lifetime. A discovery of immeasurable value. A discovery men would kill for... Led my the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a team of crack United States Marines is rushed to the station to secure this discovery for their country. They are a tight unit. Tough and fearless. They would follow their leader into hell. They just did... In a land without boundaries, the only law is survival. |
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Temple : Deep in the Jungles of Peru, the race of the century is underway. A race to locate a legendary Incan idol - and idol carves out of a strange kind of stone. A stone which in the late 20th century could be used as the basis for a terrifying weapon.
The US Army wants that idol - at any cost - but they are not alone... The only clue to the idol's final resting place lies in a 400-year-old manuscript. Enter Professor William Race, a mild-mannered And so begins the mission. A mission that will lead Race and his companions to a mysterious stone temple hidden in the foothills of Some doors are meant to remain unopened. |
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Area 7 : It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7.
And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside... Among the President's helicopter crew, however, is a young Marine. He is quiet, enigmatic, and he hides his eyes behind a pair of silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield. Call-sign: Scarecrow. Rumour has it, he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be... |
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Scarecrow : FIFTEEN NAMES - There are 15 targets, the finest warriors in the world - commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each.
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Hover Car Racer : A SPORT LIKE NO OTHER
In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar. A BRUTAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive... JASON AND THE ARGONAUT This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track... |
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Seven Ancient Wonders : IT IS THE BIGGEST TREASURE HUNT IN HISTORY
Nearly every nation is involved. A headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
THE CAPSTONE
A magnificent golden capstone once sat atop the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global rule for a thousand years...
But then, in 323 BC, the capstone was broken into seven pieces and hidden within the greatest structures of the age: monuments that would become known as the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Now, with the coming of a rare loar event, the time has come to locate the pieces and rebuild the capstone.
AN EPIC QUEST
Everyone wants it. From the most powerful countries on earth, to gangs of murderous terrorists...and one daring coalition of eight small nations who think no single country should possess such an awesome power source.
And so, led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters the fray, a global battlefield filled with viciously booby-trapped mines, stupendous Ancient Wonders, merciless evil forces, and an adventure beyond imagining. |
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