From the bestselling author of Ice Station, another dizzyingly fast-paced adventure thriller featuring Shane Schofield. 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...
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Matthew Reilly's Area 7 shows an even more concentrated skill at keeping us turning the pages than his previous bestsellers Ice Station and Temple. He knows just the kind of book he wants to write, and he's repeatedly said that the key agenda behind his kinetic thrillers is to keep the reader's pulse quickened throughout.
In Area 7 America's most secret base is the eponymous Area 7, and hidden deep in the Utah desert, this high-tech Air Force installation is visited by very few unauthorised personnel. But when the President of the United States pays a call, he encounters a nasty surprise: a hostile force is waiting inside. And as mayhem erupts, Schofield, a young marine in the President's entourage, finds himself obliged to live up to his reputation: that he's a good man in a storm. Reilly's speciality is the steady accumulation of cliffhanging situations (as he demonstrated so readily in Temple) and he pulls off the trick with his usual aplomb in this one. If the President here seems considerably brighter than the current real-life incumbent, that's a minor distraction in a thriller that maintains a Rottweiler-like grip on our attention:
The flashlight was the only thing that saved Book II's life. Primarily because it blinded the man on top of the decompression chamber, if only for a moment. That was all the time Book II needed. His shotgun boomed, blasting their commando's goggles to pieces, sending him flying off the top of the chamber. It was a small victory, for at that exact moment, gunfire erupted around the darkened room as a legion of dark figures emerged...--Barry Forshaw --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The President is visiting Area 7, America's most secret base hidden deep in the Utah desert - but hostile forces are waiting inside. However, amongst the President's helicopter crew is the young marine Shane Schofield, hero of Ice Station and Temple. A third high voltage adventure thriller from the bestselling Australian writer.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picked up this book with some trepidation after reading a few reviews but thankfully the result was well worth the effort. Yes elements of the story are somewhat too far fetched but it is no less unbelievable than a series of 24. The heroes continually get into ever increasingly tighter spots but manage to outsmart their opponents at every turn. Mr Reilly has produced an easy reading novel that is fun cross bred with 24 and Die Hard for a thrill a minute ride that helped me to finish this book much quicker than I ever manage to with a Clancy novel. I enjoyed it and have now started the follow up SCARECROW to see what new scrapes Mr Reilly can conjure up.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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You Get Exactly Whats on the cover The Fastest Action Packed Book In History
24 Aug 2006
By D. Newstead
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Well in my opinion anyway.
Forget Mission Impossible this is Mission Impossible and then some, with all sorts of action, presidents with ticking timebombs in them, missiles waiting to launch and some maniac wanting to create some kind of genocide. Granted Scarecrow and a lot of his colleagues would put Steve Austin (the bionic man) through his paces I felt that the worst part of the book was the end the last word on the end of the last page as the book certainly takes you to a different world full of action heroes and heroines and villains that are so over the top.
Get this book now.
Thats if your blood pressure can stand it.
Forget Mission Impossible this is Mission Impossible and then some, with all sorts of action, presidents with ticking timebombs in them, missiles waiting to launch and some maniac wanting to create some kind of genocide. Granted Scarecrow and a lot of his colleagues would put Steve Austin (the bionic man) through his paces I felt that the worst part of the book was the end the last word on the end of the last page as the book certainly takes you to a different world full of action heroes and heroines and villains that are so over the top.
Get this book now.
Thats if your blood pressure can stand it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By S. Tilly
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I found this book something of a paradox. Chase and fight scenes that were really quite ludicrous; a list of superlatives that seemed to start and end with "shocking", a much overused description in this book; and a tendancy to overexaggerate ("a million shells ripped into his body"). Did I enjoy the book? Oh yes, I took it everywhere I went and literally couldn't put it down. It held my attention from start to finish and had some clever twists and turns to it. And needless to say the pace of the action was breathless - the whole book takes place in about 3 hours! I've already ordered the prequel and sequel to this book - I'm a Matthew Reilly fan now.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Super soldier?
This is the second 'scarecrow' novel I have read, the first being Ice Station. I have to admit that both were brilliant reads, very exciting and honestly hard to put down. Read more
Published 24 days ago by martin bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent read
Good fast paced book, with lots of action, so I found it hard to put the book down.
Would suit those who like action and military based storylines.
Would suit those who like action and military based storylines.
Published 2 months ago by David Rankin
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great auther
If you want a story that doesn't mess about leading up to the first bang, then carries on keeping you in suspence till the last page. Then get on and read all his stories. Read more
Published 2 months ago by andy132
4.0 out of 5 stars
would make a good film
a bit Bond like but an excellent read. full of action and unbelieveable stunts. an over the top hero you just love
Published 3 months ago by H. Seabridge
5.0 out of 5 stars
excellent, heart stopping
An excellent read, there was some graet action, if a little gory at times. The characters were good and there was good rapport between them, you cared what happened to the good... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jackie Hughes
4.0 out of 5 stars
Different
Excellent story line but really spoilt by the different topics involved.
Rather than concentrating on main characters goes from side to side with twists unravelling
Rather than concentrating on main characters goes from side to side with twists unravelling
Published 3 months ago by frank
5.0 out of 5 stars
Frenetic pace!
All pages at 100mph+ what a page turner. Will appeal to holiday readers who like action, all action! Brilliant read.
Published 4 months ago by Mick F
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book
This was a fantastic read, so fast paced, and the level of detail is superb. I found that I was turning pages faster and faster, very addictive read. Fantastic.
Published 4 months ago by Brian Couper
5.0 out of 5 stars
Go Scarecrow
Matthew Reilly always writes it bigger, better and makes the action faster than any one else. I would love to see his books as a movie, just not sure Hollywood could afford all... Read more
Published 5 months ago by L. Dormon
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just brilliant
Fast and very punchy, could not put it down read cover to cover in three days, looking forward to the next installment
Published 5 months ago by simon reed
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