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As aggressive as an avalancheAand often with the same graceAReilly's second pulp-fiction adventure hurtles into the Peruvian jungle, where competing factions search for a precious Incan idol, the "Spirit of the People." The U.S. Army leads the pack. Like the others, the army wants the relic because it is made out of thyrium-261, a rare material, found only in meteorites, that can be used to create a fearsome weapon of mass destruction. The idolAa carved snarling jaguar headAis hidden in a stone temple and guarded by a pack of fearsome rapas, huge cats that can tear the best-trained warrior limb from limb. If the rapas aren't enough, 22-foot crocodiles also lurk nearby. The army group is led by unlikely hero William Race, a linguist brought along on the journey to translate the 400-year-old manuscript revealing the location of the idol. Race and the soldiers manage to fight off the rapas and retrieve the precious statuette, only to have a latterday Nazi paramilitary group, the Stormtroopers, crash the scene and take it away. However, the Stormtroopers can't hold the idol for long. U.S. Navy Seals swoop in to grab it, then lose it to a terrorist outfit from Texas. The mad chaseAfought on land, water and in the airAhurtles through ancient ruins, abandoned gold mines and tribal villages. The action, punctuated by regular bursts of superhuman feats and other absurdities, careens along at a breakneck pace. Australian Reilly (Ice Station) has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up. His writing may be crude at points, his characters cartoonish and his humor inelegant, but his story delivers all the excitement it promises. From PW.

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ISBN-10: 0312981260 (MM pbk.)
ISBN-13: 9780312981266 (MM pbk.)
Author: Matt Reilly
Genre: Adventure
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Date Published: c2001, February 18, 2002

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review by MichaelN. May 16, 2009

This Has "Flashbacks" of Greatness!

A race to obtain a mysterious Incan idol is the focal point of this book. Everyone is trying to be the first to reach it from the US Military to terrorist groups to German special police. The reason: the idol is made from a meteorite that can provide the source of power for an ultimate weapon. An ancient manuscript is the key to finding the location of the idol. This book has a lot more good points. When the main character is reading the ancient manuscript the story is excellant. The rest of the … more

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