Matthew Reilly. S&S/Gallery, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4954-9
The 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth Tudor, the narrator of this delightful, well-crafted thriller set in 1546 from Reilly (The Great Zoo of China), accompanies her tutor, Roger Ascham, to Constantinople, where the sultan Suleiman is hosting a...
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Matthew Reilly. Simon & Schuster, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-451-65774-6
After the initial stage setting, the outstanding fourth novel in Reilly’s action thriller series that began with Ice Station (1998) blasts off and never slows. Marine Capt. Shane M. “Scarecrow” Schofield, last seen in the novella Hell Island (2005),
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Matthew Reilly, Author Thomas Dunne Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-26659-2
As aggressive as an avalanche--and often with the same grace--Reilly's second pulp-fiction adventure hurtles into the Peruvian jungle, where competing factions search for a precious Incan idol, the ""Spirit of the People."" The U.S. Army leads the...
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Matthew Reilly, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-20551-5
After a team of American scientists at Wilkes Ice Station discover what seems to be a spaceship in a four-million-year-old cavern below the ice, two of the divers disappear while checking out the craft. Lt. Shane ""Scarecrow"" Schofield and his...
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Matthew Reilly, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-312-26685-1
Reilly, the pedal-to-the-metal action novelist from Australia, returns here with yet another inelegant yet oddly invigorating rip-snorter about—what else—world domination. The setting this time is Area 7, a top-secret military outpost...
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Matthew Reilly, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (381p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7757-7
In the thrilling third installment in bestseller Reilly's series to feature Jack West Jr. (after Seven Ancient Wonders
and The Six Sacred Stones
), the adventurer from the Australian outback and his band of merry men, women and children race...
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Matthew Reilly, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (429p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7054-0
The wildly imaginative Reilly has taken inspiration from comics, video games, movies, thrillers and Code
-style puzzle novels to create this rocket-fueled sequel to his 7 Deadly Wonders
. After completing a 10-year mission to acquire the Golden...
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Matthew Reilly, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (392p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7053-3
Full-stop "Screams. Splashing. Crunching. Blood" punctuate and come to epitomize Reilly's (Area 7
; Ice Station
) latest video game–style thriller about a race to find the seven pieces of the Golden Capstone that once sat atop the...
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Matthew Reilly, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-312-28958-4
Area 7
; Temple
; Contest
; Ice Station
—fans of Reilly's novels know that no one writes faster-moving adventure fiction, so it's a shock to read, in an interview with Reilly included at the back of this novel, that he aimed to "cr
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Matthew Reilly, Author . St. Martin's/Dunne $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-28625-5
ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the labyrinth" for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different world,...
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Matthew Reilly. S&S/Gallery, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4955-6
In this entertaining if derivative science thriller from bestseller Reilly (Scarecrow Returns), Chinese officials invite a group of Americans to the opening of a new, groundbreaking zoo in Guangdong Province. On arrival, the guests—who include the U.
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Matthew Reilly, read by Katie Firth. S&S Audio, , unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-9129-1
Reilly is a unique, vivacious guide in this entertaining trip to the world’s first international chess tournament in 16th-century Constantinople, complete with murders, political and religious intrigues, and the assorted opulence and decadence of...
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Matthew Reilly, Author, Scott Sowers, Read by , read by Scott Sowers. Audio Renaissance $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-55927-988-8
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's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version.
Fiction
SCARECROW
Matthew Reilly
, read by Scott Sowers. Audio Renaissance
, abridged, four CDs, 5 hrs., $24.95
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Matthew Reilly, Author, Pablo Raimondi, Illustrator , illus. by Pablo Raimondi. S&S $9.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4169-0225-6
Bestselling author Reilly (Area 7
; Ice Station
) takes a rough detour into the world of children's books with the first book in the paper-over-board Hover Car Racer series, set in the near future ("Since hover technology required no...
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Matthew Reilly. Gallery, $26 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6715-7
In bestseller Reilly’s silly fourth thriller featuring Jack West Jr. (after 2009’s The Five Greatest Warriors), a runaway galaxy that’s traveling at 10 times the speed of light threatens to destroy Earth. West, after learning that he’s one of those...
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Matthew Reilly. Gallery, $26.99 (448p) ISBN 978-1-5011-6719-5
Reilly doesn’t stint on the crazy in his fifth thriller featuring Capt. Jack West Jr. (after 2017’s The Four Legendary Kingdoms). West, representing Orlando, the King of Land, has just prevailed in the Great Games held in the Underworld, becoming...
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Matthew Reilly. Pan Macmillan Australia (IPG, dist.), $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-760559-08-3
The stakes couldn’t be higher in bestseller Reilly’s over-the-top sixth thriller starring Jack West Jr. (after 2018’s The Three Secret Cities). In less than a week, Jack and his oddball team of adventurers, whose members have silly names like Pooh...
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