Reilly, Matthew

"Rumors of a coming global apocalypse are building as Skye Rogers gets let in to the most exclusive group in upper class New York"--Provided by publisher.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Chaser races hover cars. Jason and his brother, "the Bug, " have been accepted to the International Race School, where they race against great difficulties.

ETs with a mordant sense of drama turn the New York Public Library into "the labyrinth" for an interstellar survival game show in this ungainly thriller from Australian Reilly (Ice Station). Seven players, each from a different world, compete for their lives, combating not only each other but also a monster called the Karanodon. The earthly representative is Dr. Steven Swain, chosen for his courage in successfully fighting off a gang of thugs who invade his operating room. Unfortunately, Swain happens to be holding Holly, his plucky little daughter, at the moment he's transported into the labyrinth, so she goes with him. The most devilish trick the "sponsors" provide is an unremovable digital bracelet, whose face shows how many opponents remain, and will commence a deadly 15-minute countdown should its wearer manage to escape the library's electrified confines.

Soldier Jack West Jr. and his loyal team must travel to all corners of the earth in search of six fabled Sacred Stones, which are the only thing that can save the world from certain destruction.

Professor William Race is called in by the U.S. Army to translate an ancient manuscript which holds the key to the location of an Indian icon which could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon.

Australian soldier Jack West Jr. leads a team of operatives from a coalition of seven non-superpower nations in a quest to find the pieces of the Golden Capstone for the Great Pyramid at Giza which legend claims will prevent worldwide flooding and solar damage during the Tartaus Rotation--a solar event that occurs once every 4,500 years--and grant the person who places the Capstone on the pyramid absolute power over Earth for the next one thousand years.

U.S. Marine captain Shane Schofield, call-sign Scarecrow, finds himself pursued by a notorious bounty hunter after a cabal of the world's richest humans identifies him as one of fifteen people with reflexes fast enough to defuse the nuclear weapons they plan to unleash on the world.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Chaser races hover cars. Jason and his brother, "the Bug, " have been accepted to the International Race School, where they race against great difficulties. Jason Chaser has the need for speed-hyper speed. With his brother, the Bug, navigating, the fourteen-year-old hover car racing phenom is geared up to take the world by storm. Jason's first stop, however, is the prestigious International Race School, where he has to match skill and will against tyrannical instructors, sabotaged equipment, and the planet's best teenage fliers. Included in that mix are Jason's hometown rival and all-around cretin, Barnaby Becker; American Ariel Piper, the first girl to ever be accepted into race school; and a mysterious driver in black-who never seems to lose. The chills and thrills (and awe-inspiring spills) come fast and furious as New York Times best-selling author Matthew Reilly delivers a pulse-pounding, hard-driving, high-octane, no-holds-barred teen techo-thriller sure to have readers enthralled from starting line to checkered flag.

In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive. This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track.

After his accident, it looks like Jason doesn't have a chance on the professional race circuit, but tries to overcome his misfortune and rivals and become one of the top four students at the International Race School, giving him a chance to compete in the New York Masters.