Temple
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4.4 • 191 Ratings
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The thrilling international bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now.
"The action just keeps on coming ... Michael Crichton meets Indiana Jones." Kirkus Reviews
Deep in the jungle of Peru, the hunt for a legendary Incan idol is under way - an idol that in the present day could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon.
Guiding a US Army team is Professor William Race, a young linguist who must translate an ancient manuscript which contains the location of the idol.
What they find is an ominous stone temple, sealed tight. They open it - and soon discover that some doors are meant to remain unopened...
Fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton will love Matthew Reilly.
PRAISE FOR MATTHEW REILLY
"Reilly has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up." Publishers Weekly
"Compared to Matthew Reilly's Temple and his intrepid academic hero, Professor William Race, Indiana Jones is a wimp and The Raiders of The Lost Ark a snooze fest. Reilly's book has adrenaline in super-sized quantities." The Orlando Sentinel
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 pack. Like the others, the army wants the relic because it is made out of thyrium-261, a rare material, found only in meteorites, that can be used to create a fearsome weapon of mass destruction. The idol--a carved snarling jaguar head--is hidden in a stone temple and guarded by a pack of fearsome rapas, huge cats that can tear the best-trained warrior limb from limb. If the rapas aren't enough, 22-foot crocodiles also lurk nearby. The army group is led by unlikely hero William Race, a linguist brought along on the journey to translate the 400-year-old manuscript revealing the location of the idol. Race and the soldiers manage to fight off the rapas and retrieve the precious statuette, only to have a latterday Nazi paramilitary group, the Stormtroopers, crash the scene and take it away. However, the Stormtroopers can't hold the idol for long. U.S. Navy Seals swoop in to grab it, then lose it to a terrorist outfit from Texas. The mad chase--fought on land, water and in the air--hurtles through ancient ruins, abandoned gold mines and tribal villages. The action, punctuated by regular bursts of superhuman feats and other absurdities, careens along at a breakneck pace. Australian Reilly (Ice Station) has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up. His writing may be crude at points, his characters cartoonish and his humor inelegant, but his story delivers all the excitement it promises.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant
To those who think there are spelling mistakes.. you do realise Matthew is an Australian, not an American? I have all of Matthew's books and can't remember a single mistake in any of them.
Very Enjoyable!
I know what I’m going to get with Matthew Reilly - and it’s always great fun.
One of my favourites
A friend of mine introduced me to Matthew Reilly's novels during high school, and I was hooked. Temple wasn't the first or the second one that I read (or even the third) but that in no way detracts from how much I enjoyed this novel. It was a fantastic read from start to finish. For those who aren't big fans of two stories happening at the same time, this might be a little bit tricky for you, but at the same time, the stories are woven together well, so that you almost don't notice.
This book is definitely worth $10 in my opinion, the only thing that saddens me is that I don't get a paper copy with the download, but I do already have a copy on my bookshelf..... so yeah. Definitely read if you're a fan of action adventure stories. And then when you're finished read all his other books.