Airport fiction at its best. I've read Matthew Reilly before in Hell Island. Heavy emphasis on military hardware, non-stop action, and a narrative that reads exactly like a Hollywood screenplay. It's pretty much the same thing with Temple.Story is about a multi-party quest for an ancient Incan artifact. Our leading man is mild-mannered Professor William Race, a young linguist contracted by the US Army to translate a long-lost manuscript in order to local the artifact. Apparently, the Incan idol is sealed within a stone temple, and is protected by vicious giant rapas (mythical jaguar-like beasts). To make things interesting, ze Germans are also out to get the idol. And so are the Texan Freedom Fighters, and the Navy boys.
If you have time to kill at the airport or on the plane, I really suggest you read this book. Incredible action scenes and unbelievable plots twists - close encounters with rapas and crocs, continual flashbacks to the Spanish Occupation era, complicated fight scenes on land, air , and water, last-minute disarmament of the Supernova, etc. Gotta read to believe!
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