{"id":39152,"date":"2013-11-26T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=39152"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:31:04","slug":"best-of-booktopia-tv-fast-and-furious-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2013\/11\/26\/best-of-booktopia-tv-fast-and-furious-thrillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of Booktopia TV: Fast and Furious Thrillers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Matthew Reilly &#8211; <em>The Tournament<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inYw8ky03B4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here for more details or to buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-tournament-unsigned-copy-matthew-reilly\/prod9781742612393.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-39154 alignright\" alt=\"the-tournament-unsigned-copy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/the-tournament-unsigned-copy.jpg?w=132\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Bestselling author Matthew Reilly is one of Australia&#8217;s most reliable writers. Every couple of years he delivers his fans quality popular fiction and every couple of years he can be counted on to break Australian sales records. But till now, all of his successes,<i> Ice Station<\/i>, <i> Seven Ancient Wonders<\/i>,<i> Temple<\/i>,<i> The Five Greatest Warriors<\/i>, <i> Scarecrow<\/i>, to name just a few, have one thing in common, the breakneck speed of their narrative.<\/p>\n<p><i> The Tournament<\/i> is a departure for Reilly, gone is his trademark breakneck speed. Instead we find a narrative with gravitational pull. Enter The Tournament&#8217;s orbit and you cannot escape, you must read on to the final page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-tournament-unsigned-copy-matthew-reilly\/prod9781742612393.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left;\">Hugh Howey &#8211; <em>Shift<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ACXj0siDE9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click here for more details or to buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/shift-hugh-howey\/prod9780099580478.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-39155\" alt=\"shift\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/shift.jpg?w=129\" width=\"129\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away.<\/p>\n<p>A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us.<\/p>\n<p>They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground.<\/p>\n<p>The history of the silo is about to be written.<\/p>\n<p>Our future is about to begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/shift-hugh-howey\/prod9780099580478.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align:left;\">Kathy Reichs &#8211; <em>Bones of the Lost<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><iframe width=\"1250\" height=\"703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o2UIFR4mrsU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The body of a teenage girl is discovered along a desolate highway on the outskirts of Charlotte. Inside her purse is the ID card of a local businessman who died in a fire months earlier.<a title=\"Click here for more details or to buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/bones-of-the-lost-kathy-reichs\/prod9780434021161.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-39156\" alt=\"bones-of-the-lost\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/bones-of-the-lost.jpg?w=130\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is no ordinary hit-and-run. Who was the girl? And was she murdered?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Dr Temperance Brennan, Forensic Anthropologist, must find the answers. She soon learns that a Gulf War veteran stands accused of smuggling artefacts into the country. Could there be a sinister connection between the two cases?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a title=\"Click here for more details or to buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/bones-of-the-lost-kathy-reichs\/prod9780434021161.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Reilly &#8211; The Tournament Bestselling author Matthew Reilly is one of Australia&#8217;s most reliable writers. Every couple of years he delivers his fans quality popular fiction and every couple of years he can be counted on to break Australian sales records. But till now, all of his successes, Ice Station, Seven Ancient Wonders, Temple, The Five Greatest Warriors, Scarecrow, to name just a few, have one thing in common, the breakneck speed of their narrative. The Tournament is a departure for Reilly, gone is his trademark breakneck speed. Instead we find a narrative with gravitational pull. Enter The Tournament&#8217;s orbit and you cannot escape, you must read on to the final page. Click here for more details&#8230; Hugh Howey &#8211; Shift In a future less than fifty years away, the world is still as we know it. Time continues to tick by. The truth is that it is ticking away. A powerful few know what lies ahead. They are preparing for it. They are trying to protect us. They are setting us on a path from which we can never return. A path that will lead to destruction; a path that will take us below ground. 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