I have just finished reading my second Matthew Reilly crazy action / thriller - Area 7 - and all I can say is what the hell was that? Where does this guy get his imagination from? I am now definitely a fan of the Shane Schofield / Scarecrow series, even though the plots are the antithesis of how I usually like my narratives to unravel. Meaning action novels are not really my thing.
I do, however, like how Reilly turns classified government information on its head. If governments don't want to divulge their secrets to the populace, I am delighted that authors with insanely active imaginations take the basics of weaponry and espionage and then just make up a whole lot of shit to fit their storyline. And governments can't say the storyline isn't true because they can't defend classified information one way or the other. Love it.
Postscript:
Just finished Reilly's third novel in the Shane Schofield series - Scarecrow - and it's just as farfetched and captivating as the other two. Now onto Hell Island. Sounds delightful.
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