Temple - Softcover

The action just keeps on coming...Michael Crichton meets Indiana Jones. "Kirkus Reviews"

Reilly has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up. "Publishers Weekly"

As good as it gets when it comes to action thrillers...brilliant. "The Charleston Post & Courier""

The action just keeps on coming...Michael Crichton meets Indiana Jones. Kirkus Reviews

Reilly has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up. Publishers Weekly

As good as it gets when it comes to action thrillers...brilliant. The Charleston Post & Courier

"The action just keeps on coming...Michael Crichton meets Indiana Jones." --Kirkus Reviews

"Reilly has a gift for sustaining momentum that never lets up." --Publishers Weekly

"As good as it gets when it comes to action thrillers...brilliant." --The Charleston Post & Courier

A blockbuster thriller from bestselling author Matthew Reilly.

Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to decipher the clues to its location, it's the ultimate symbol of the apocalypse...

Carved from a rare stone not found on Earth, the idol possesses elements more destructive than any nuclear bomb--a virtual planet killer. In the wrong hands it could mean the end of mankind. And whoever possesses the idol, possesses the unfathomable--and cataclysmic--power of the gods...

Now, in the foothills of the Andes, Race's team has arrived--but they're not alone. And soon they'll discover that to penetrate the temple of the idol is to break the first rule of survival.

Because some treasures are meant to stay buried..and forces are ready to kill to keep it that way...