The Four Legendary Kingdoms
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- 55,00 kr
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- 55,00 kr
Publisher Description
The new, thrilling novel featuring Jack West, Jr., from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Matthew Reilly.
Jack West, Jr. and his family are living contentedly on their remote farm when their lives are abruptly shattered. Jack is brutally kidnapped and he awakens in an underground cell to find a masked attacker with a knife charging at him. It seems he has been chosen—along with a dozen other elite soldiers—to compete in a series of deadly challenges designed to fulfill an ancient ritual. With the fate of the Earth at stake, he will have to traverse diabolical mazes, fight cruel assassins, and face unimaginable horrors that will test him like he has never been tested before. In the process, he will discover the mysterious and powerful group of individuals behind it all: the four legendary kingdoms. He might also discover that he is not the only hero in this place…
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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 five warriors (along with Jesus, Napoleon, Moses, and Genghis Khan), survives "a terrible showdown against his father in a giant underground shrine beneath Easter Island." He settles into a quiet life of domesticity on his outback farm in Australia, only to get the bad news about the runaway galaxy and immediately be kidnapped by a representative of one of the four eternal kingdoms that rule the world. West lands in a hellish arena where he's forced to participate in a brutal battle to death against human and not-quite human adversaries, including minotaurs who are really Neanderthals in bull masks. Diagrams resembling screenshots of video games don't enhance the text, which is further marred by banal dialogue ("I've never found myself in a place calling itself the Underworld, ruled by a guy calling himself Hades, fighting for my life against guys in bull and lion helmets").
