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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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'Epic, action-packed adventure... unbelievably pacy' - Mirror
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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
Format:Paperback
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
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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Great read
I could not put this book down, Originally this was a christmas present for my dad, but ended up reading before him and I loved it. Twists and turns you like a race.
Published 4 months ago by C. J. Kenward
Drivel
This has to be the worst book I've read - or rather not read, because I gave up before I was halfway through and tossed it in the bin. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Paul Nicholls
None stop action and twists that you will never see coming!
I have just recently began to read the works of Matthew Reily and I have to say, his style of writing is at such a pace that you will find it hard to put any of his books down. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Screwjack
Area 7 is dreadful
This is one of the worst books I have ever read. The plot starts out OK, but rapidly becomes so far fetched as to be laughable. The actual writing is simply dreadful. Read more
Published 15 months ago by ladyshield
Please make this into a movie
Picked this up in the book sharing area on holiday in Spain. At page 100 I thought I know where this going ~ so predictable. Boy was I wrong. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Parky
Fantastic, Non stop action from start to finish
First Matthew Reilly book I have read (Not read Ice Station yet), so didnt know what to expect. Finished it in double quick time on holiday as it was brilliant! Read more
Published 19 months ago by James Middleton
Action packed Die Hard meets 24 in a book
Read the first couple of pages and put it down again and read something else. I finally picked it up and scan read to get past the boring bits and suddenly it took off. Read more
Published 22 months ago by R. Hart
How did this get published?
Having read Ice Station, and a couple of the other books, I wasn't hugely impressed, but I was entertained enough to buy Area 7.
This book was just ridiculous. Read more
This book was just ridiculous. Read more
Published on 7 May 2010 by R. Stevens
A Real Page Turner
Excitement on every page, you just have to read the next page ,then another , then another. I couldn't put it down !
Published on 12 July 2009 by Mrs. B. M. Boakes
Switch off brain and enjoy!
Ok. If you like lessons in reality and coherent plots, probably avoid this like all of the other M Reilly books... Read more
Published on 9 July 2009 by Miker
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