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This is Matthew Reilly’s third offering in the Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield series, following on from Ice Station Matthew Reilly admits that he set out to make this book a faster book that was more densely packed with plot than his previous books; no mean feat considering how fast moving and action-packed his earlier books were. However he has accomplished what he set out to do, this book has stepped the action-thriller up a couple of notches.

Scarecrow is one of 15 targets of a worldwide bounty hunt. The bounty on each target’s head is over $18 million, enough to lure the best bounty hunters in the world and setting up a series of showdowns of monumental proportions. Scarecrow pretty quickly finds himself with 2 primary objectives; the first and most obvious is to try to stay alive; the second is to try to save the world. Abley assisted by “Mother”, “Gant” and “Book”, Scarecrow travels the world in less than 10 hours to try and eliminate the global threat that is the Majestic 12.

As Scarecrow battles to save the world, the reader is treated to incredible super-charged action, a non-stop body count and outrageous conspiracies. Is it believable? – no; could it happen? – Definitely not, but Reilly is writing fiction here and even though it could be categorised as fantasy, this book just blisters along, quite simply – it’s action on steroids.