At a remote US ice station in Antarctica, a team of scientists has made an amazing discovery. They found something unbelievable buried deep below the surface - trapped inside a layer of ice 400 million years old. Something made of metal...something which shouldn't be there...it's the discovery of a lifetime, a discovery of immeasurable value. And a discovery men will kill for. Led by the enigmatic Lieutenant Shane Schofield, a crack team of US Marines is rushed to the ice station to secure this bizarre discovery for their nation. Meanwhile other countries have developed the same ideas, and are ready to pursue it swiftly and ruthlessly. Fortunately, Schofield's men are a tough unit, all set to follow their leader into hell. They soon discover they just did... 'For lots of lethal violence involving high-tech weaponry. For thrilling escapes from the jaws of death. For cliffhanging suspense on just about every page... Ice Station delivers the action-thriller goods with all the explosive fire power of a machine pistol' West Australian

Ice Station

Bestselling author Matthew Reilly takes you on a thrilling treasure hunt in Seven Ancient Wonders. It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now, the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it - from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists .

Seven Ancient Wonders

It is America's most secret base, hidden deep in the Utah desert, an Air Force installation known only as Area 7. And today it has a visitor: the President of the United States. He has come to inspect Area 7, to examine its secrets for himself. But he's going to get more than he bargained for on this trip. Because hostile forces are waiting inside... Among the President's helicopter crew, however, is a young Marine. He is quiet, enigmatic, and he hides his eyes behind a pair of silver sunglasses. His name is Schofield. Call-sign: SCARECROW. Rumour has it, he's a good man in a storm. Judging by what the President has just walked into, he'd better be... 'Epic, action-packed adventure...unbelievably pacy' Daily Mirror 'Nonstop thrills...cliffhangers galore' Publishers Weekly

Area 7

As 'Scarecrow' Schofield watches his mission to eliminate a Siberian turn into a bloodbath, he realises he has been tricked -- and now become the prey rather than the predator. For a shadowy consortium of staggering power and wealth has included his name on a list of fifteen targets to be eliminated without fail by twelve noon that same day. Now every high-powered bounty hunter on the planet is on his trail, while he must simultaneously track down the perpetrators of a conspiracy about to reduce many of the major cities of the world to ashes. From Arctic Russia to the Afghan border, to France's Atlantic Coast, to a speed-of-light conflict over the Suez Canal, every form of ultra-tech weaponry comes into play in a spellbinding action drama unfolding within a mere twenty-four hours.

Scarecrow

The New York State Library looms as a silent sanctuary of knowledge: a hundred-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles, and spiral staircases. But for Dr Stephen Swain and his eight-year-old daughter Holly it is a place of nightmare. Because, for just one night, this historic building is to become the venue for a horrifying contest, a contest in which Swain must compete, whether he likes it or not. The rules of the challenge are simple: seven contestants will enter, but only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms, Stephen Swain is plunged into a terrifying fight for survival. The stakes are high, the odds are brutal. He can choose to run, to hide, or to fight - but if he wants to live, he needs to win. For, in this particular contest, unless you leave as victor, you do not leave at all.

Contest

Deep in the jungles of Peru the contest of the century is underway. It's a race to locate a legendary Incan idol - one carved out of a strange kind of stone. But a stone which in the present century could be used for a terrifying new purpose. Now rival groups are assembling their teams to hunt the idol down, at any cost. The only clue to the idol's final resting place is to be found in a 400-year-old manuscript. Which introduces Professor William Race, a mild-mannered but brilliant young linguist who is unwillingly recruited to interpret the document that could lead to the idol itself. So begins the mission that will lead Race and his companions to a mysterious temple hidden in the foothills of the Andes. There they find a carefully contrived sanctuary seething with menace and unexpected dangers. But it is not until the silence of the temple is breached that Race and his team discover they have broken a golden rule .

Temple

Quand j'ai commencé à écrire, je lisais des gens comme Tom Clancy ou Michael Crichton, qui a fait 'Jurassic Park', qui est peut-être le livre le plus rempli d'action que vous lirez, à part le mien, et je me suis dit: `` Pourquoi Ces gars-là ne font-ils pas une action à grande échelle comme vous le verriez dans un film?

Je ne faisais pas partie de ces enfants qui rêvaient d'écrire des romans quand j'avais 8 ou 12 ans. Je voulais être réalisateur. Je voulais faire de grands films d'action. J'ai adoré des films comme «Die Hard», «Predator», «Aliens», «Raiders of the Lost Ark».

La loyauté d'un ami dure plus longtemps que sa mémoire. Au cours d'une longue amitié, vous pourriez vous disputer avec votre ami, voire vous mettre en colère contre lui. Mais un véritable ami oubliera cette colère au bout d'un moment, car sa loyauté envers son ami l'emporte sur le souvenir du désaccord.

J'écris sur toutes sortes de choses: un gars combattant des extraterrestres à la bibliothèque de l'État de New York, en Antarctique, une civilisation Inca au Pérou, la grande pyramide à Giza, et les gens me demandent souvent, d'où est-ce que je tire ces idées? Ils viennent de lire largement, de regarder beaucoup de documentaires, et de plus en plus, comme j'ai pu voyager à travers le monde.

Je suis là depuis assez longtemps maintenant que les gens qui n'entrent pas dans l'assurance-net, les trucs exagérés, ils savent ne plus acheter mes livres.

Fantasy m'a permis de briser les chaînes et de créer un tout nouveau niveau de participation «The World Is Danger».

À quiconque connaît un écrivain, ne sous-estimez jamais le pouvoir de vos encouragements.

Les zoos m'ont toujours fasciné. Quel enfant ne s'est pas demandé ce qui se passerait si tous les animaux s'échappaient du zoo? Ou que se passerait-il s'ils se faisaient prendre dans une enceinte?

J'ai à la fois tenu et vu un pouvoir illimité et je ne sais qu'une chose. Cela rend les hommes fous. - Alexandre le Grand

Mon premier livre, «Contest», a fait combattre des extraterrestres dans la bibliothèque publique de New York. Le deuxième livre, «Ice Station» et «Temple» étaient des thrillers militaires actuels.

Il y a un discours oriental que j'aime: «Si l'agression rencontre l'espace vide, il a tendance à se vaincre.

Ce que je fais, c'est écrire des livres pour un public qui pense dans une langue cinématographique. C'est ainsi que je pense, et je crois aussi que pas assez d'auteurs suivent le public.

Il n'y a pas de "écrivain en herbe". Vous êtes écrivain. Période.

Dans «Sept Anciennes merveilles», Jack West et son équipe sortent quelqu'un de Guantanamo Bay. Je ne vais pas prêcher aux gens et dire: «Guantanamo Bay, mauvais», mais je vais demander à mon héros de sortir quelqu'un, et peut-être que les gens y penseront de cette façon.

Je lis «le hobbit» uniquement lorsque j'étais adulte. J'avais beaucoup d'amis, des adolescents, qui ont découvert la lecture de «The Hobbit», mais ce n'était pas quelque chose que j'ai découvert que plus tard dans la vie.

Il n'existe pas un écrivain en herbe. Vous êtes écrivain. Période.

Je pense que «la femme du voyageur du temps» est l'un des livres les plus commerciaux que j'ai jamais vus.

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