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Area 7 - Matthew Reilly

explosions or poop jokes you will hear them cry. Never in my life would I have believed that there is literature that is a vacuous as these films. Matthew Reilly set out to prove me wrong with ‘Area 7’ probably the daftest book that I have ever read. Schofield, codenamed Scarecrow, is a marine who has been assigned to guard the President whilst on a covert visit to an underground airbase called Area 7. Inside the base is a secret lab that has been used by the US government to create a vaccine for a new strain of biological warfare. Scarecrow is only made aware of this when the President and his bodyguards are locked in the base and attacked by 50 rogue special ops ...

Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly

Statue of Liberty and Collossus of Rhodes both positioned at the mouth of a river and the Statue of Zeus sat on a throne like the Lincoln Memorial. Matthew Reilly, is an Australian action thriller writer born in 1974 and by the age of 20 had already written ‘Contest‘ his first book, self-publish 1,000 copies using money borrowed from his family because the publishing houses of Sydney refused to take him on. He says his main influences include Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas which you can clearly see from his style of writing. The adventure, the intense thriller and the likeable main characters. Contest was eventually republished in 1996. His other ...

Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilly

to be swallowed up by the insatiable desire for labyrinthine subterfuge and world-wide intrigue. Not that I ve read the aforementioned book by Dan Brown but "Seven Ancient Wonders" by Matthew Reilly did catch me eye recently. I m not sure whether it was the exotic book cover featuring an artistic pyramid with an all-seeing eye within or whether it was the synopsis that proclaimed about ancient secrets being unlocked and adventures beginning. Whatever it was, I decided to delve into the world of the Australian writer to see why he had managed to break into the top 20 bestsellers. "Seven Ancient Wonders" is the story of the fictional pursuit of the ...