![]() So the rare Thyrium -261 element, which the beautiful but fearsome idol is made from took a very long, long time to get here millions of years, the Incas found the rock and carved The Spirit of the People, shaped like a cat's head from the black, purple stone and made it their symbol. They're after an Inca idol, a foot high that originated in the distant Pleiades a star cluster 425 light- years from Earth. Race grows weak when he first talks to Lauren but she is married. When he finds out a former girlfriend in college Lauren O'Conner, (William still has feelings for) is part of the group how can he say no? Mr. Promises that Mr.Race will be back home soon, not even leaving the plane! Can we say this is not what happens. Nash, persuades the not very brave professor, how vital this is for national security. The problem, he can only read the writing on an airplane heading for Peru. A copy from the original taken from a French monastery in the Pyrenees by Germans, brutal criminals, Nazis, the famous Alberto Santiago one (a Spanish Monk). Race at the office and has a little job for him, a simple translation of a 500- year -old manuscript. Colonel Nash head of an army unit, greets Mr. Timid Professor William Race of New York University, an expert in ancient Latin, is late for work as usual, it will be his last dull moment for many days. Matthew Reilly is currently living in Los Angeles. He also has a life-sized Han Solo in carbonite hanging on the wall of his office! When not writing or penning a film script, Matthew can be found on the golf course. He owns and drives a DeLorean DMC-12, the car made famous in the Back to the Future movies. Other short stories include Time Tours, The Mine and the hyper-adrenalised romp, Altitude Rush. Matthew has also written several short stories, including Roger Ascham and the King's Lost Girl, a special free prequel to The Tournament which is available online. ![]() Since Seven Ancient Wonders in 2005, Matthew's novels have been the biggest selling new fiction title released in Australia for that year. His books are published in over 20 languages with worldwide sales of over 7 million copies. Matthew Reilly is now the internationally bestselling author of the Scarecrow novels: Ice Station, Area 7, Scarecrow, Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves and the novella Hell Island the Jack West novels: Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors, The Four Legendary Kingdoms, and The Three Secret Cities and the standalone novels Contest, Temple, Hover Car Racer, The Tournament, Troll Mountain, The Great Zoo of China and The Secret Runners of New York. Interestingly, those original self-published editions of Contest have now become much sought after collectors' items. ![]() The editor tracked Matthew down through his contact details in the front of the book. ![]() In January 1997, a Commissioning Editor for Pan Macmillan Australia walked into Angus & Robertson's Pitt Street Mall store and bought a copy of Contest. He produced a big-budget-looking novel which he sold into bookshops throughout Sydney, one shop at a time. Following this revelation, Matthew soon began creating stories of his own and set about writing his first novel, Contest, at the age of 19 while still at university studying law.įollowing rejections from all the major publishers, Matthew self-published Contest in 1996, printing 1000 copies. It was only after he read To Kill A Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies in Year 10 that he realised reading could transport you to another world. Born in Sydney in 1974, Matthew Reilly was not always a big fan of reading. ![]()
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