Matthew Reilly Books in Order

Doctor Stephen Swain and his young daughter are transported into the New York Public Library, which has been turned into an arena for an intergalactic death match. Seven contestants enter, only one can leave, and Swain must fight to keep them both alive.

When a remote Antarctic research station reports a stunning discovery beneath the ice, Captain Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield and his Marines are sent to secure it. They find hostile forces, deadly secrets and a frozen battleground where no one can be trusted.

Linguist William Race is dragged from his university office to translate a 400‑year‑old manuscript about a Spanish monk and a lost Incan idol. Deep in the Peruvian jungle, rival teams battle to seize the idol’s otherworldly metal, which could power a world‑killing weapon.

On a routine tour of a top‑secret Air Force installation, the US President is trapped underground by a rogue general who has wired the nation’s cities to nuclear warheads. Schofield and his Marines must keep the President alive and outthink a coup planned for years.

The world’s richest men place a massive bounty on fifteen elite soldiers, and Shane “Scarecrow” Schofield’s name is on the list. Hunted across oceans, deserts and fortresses by mercenaries and assassins, he has hours to stay alive and uncover who wants him erased.

In a near‑future world obsessed with hover car racing, teenage driver Jason Chaser and his genius kid brother Bug earn a shock place at the International Race School. Surrounded by ruthless rivals and deadly tracks, Jason fights to prove he belongs on the starting grid.

Fourteen‑year‑old Jason Chaser and his gifted younger brother Bug leave home for the elite International Race School, where hover car prodigies train. Against brutal instructors, jealous classmates and mysterious sabotage, Jason has one season to prove he deserves his spot.

Four elite special forces teams are dropped onto an unmarked Pacific island after all contact is lost with a secret installation there. Schofield’s Marine unit discovers the site was used for horrific super‑soldier experiments, and something has slaughtered almost everyone.

As a catastrophic solar event looms, soldier‑scholar Jack West Jr leads a small coalition of nations on a frantic race through the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Their goal is to reassemble a Golden Capstone before rival superpowers seize its power.

Jason Chaser claws his way into the Sponsors’ Tournament, racing under the hard‑driving eye of coach Scott Syracuse. A surprise sponsorship sends him to Italy for a major pro race, where media glare, glamour and dirty tricks make staying focused on the track his toughest test yet.

After a horrific crash in the Italian Run, teenage racer Jason Chaser returns to Race School shaken and low on points. Only the top four students will reach the prestigious New York Masters, and Jason must overcome fear, sabotage and ruthless rivals to keep his dream alive.

Picking up after Seven Deadly Wonders, Jack West Jr learns of a hidden machine that can shield Earth from a coming cosmic disaster. To rebuild it, he and his team must find six legendary stones and place diamond pillars at deadly locations around the globe.

Jack West Jr survives a fall into the abyss and is thrown back into the race to complete the Great Machine before the Dark Sun destroys the planet. To succeed, he must unravel the riddle of the five greatest warriors in history and outpace ruthless enemies.

On a routine weapons‑testing mission in the Arctic, Schofield learns that a terrorist force called the Army of Thieves has seized a former Soviet base holding a doomsday device. With only a handful of Marines and civilians, he must stop them before the sky itself ignites.

In the opening part of Troll Mountain, Raf’s valley reels from a deadly illness while the trolls demand greater tribute. When his sister falls sick and the elders refuse to act, Raf sets out with a reclusive hermit toward the forbidden mountains to steal the trolls’ fabled cure.

Seven months before The Tournament, King Henry VIII asks Roger Ascham to find Isabella, a favourite prostitute who has vanished. The search leads Ascham into ruined castles, torture devices and a hidden killer who treats young women as subjects for his grisly “research.”

In 1546, young Princess Elizabeth and her tutor Roger Ascham travel to the Ottoman court for a grand chess tournament. When a visiting noble is murdered inside the palace, Ascham must solve the crime amid religious tension, court intrigue and the games themselves.

Raf, the hermit Ko and outcast troll Düm push through the trapped tunnels of Forbidden Mountain toward Troll Mountain itself. Hunted by hobgoblins and wolves, they must find a way into the fortress and keep Raf’s desperate mission secret from both trolls and humans.

In the final Troll Mountain episode, Raf is captured and forced into a deadly arena while the trolls celebrate a royal wedding. To save his sister and his people, he gambles everything on a plan that could topple the trolls’ rule—or see him die on their mountain.

Alligator expert and journalist CJ Cameron is invited to preview a secret mega‑project: a vast Chinese wildlife park built around living dragons. When the creatures rebel and the zoo’s safeguards fail, CJ must survive both the dragons and officials desperate to hide the disaster.

Raf’s sister lies dying from a mysterious sickness, and only the trolls who rule his valley claim to possess a cure. Defying his tribe, the teen sets out with a cantankerous hermit and an unlikely troll ally to infiltrate Troll Mountain and steal the life‑saving elixir.

On Christmas Eve, before the later Jack West Jr novels, Jack sneaks into the Metropolitan Museum of Art to investigate the ancient Temple of Dendur. Inside, he hunts for a legendary helmet said to rewrite history, while a shadowy adversary moves to stop him.

Kidnapped from his quiet farm, Jack West Jr wakes inside a brutal underground arena where champions of four hidden kingdoms fight in mythic trials. Forced into these Hydra Games, he must survive the contests and uncover why the ancient powers suddenly need him alive.

Now a marked man, Jack West Jr is hunted by an ancient order and the Knights of the Golden Eight while the countdown to a new catastrophe accelerates. His only hope lies in locating three legendary secret cities and decoding the secrets they were built to protect.

New girl Skye Rogers is drawn into the orbit of ultra‑rich Manhattan classmates who slip through a hidden portal under Central Park. Their secret runs into a devastated future New York, and Skye must work out what happened—and whether anyone back home will listen.

When an eccentric satellite hunter intercepts a heavily encrypted transmission from the Moon, he’s abducted by Chinese forces. Jack West Jr stages a daring rescue and moves to intercept a returning lunar probe, hoping its data will explain a mysterious structure on the lunar surface.

Days after Elizabeth I’s coronation, eerie dolls predicting deaths arrive at court and three men are murdered at long range. The queen summons Roger Ascham, her old tutor, to unmask an assassin archer before a planned river pageant turns into a royal execution.

Reeling from terrible personal loss, Jack West Jr races to find a set of iron mountains tied to an ominous ritual known as the Fall. As rival factions close in, he has days to uncover two long‑lost peaks and stop a plan that would remake humanity on brutal terms.

In the final Jack West Jr adventure, Jack enters the Supreme Labyrinth, a maze of mazes built to decide who will claim a throne at the exact moment the universe faces collapse. With enemies on every side, he must attempt the impossible or watch everything end.

For decades, the United States and Russia each relied on a single, unstoppable superhero. When America’s champion dies, the Russian “Fury” launches a campaign to crush the country—unless Cobalt’s quiet, overlooked daughter Cassie can step up and become Cobalt Blue.

Hanna Fischer dreams of studying physics with Albert Einstein, but revolution, bigotry and war upend her life. Spanning four decades, she becomes secretary, scientist and spy, crossing from Berlin’s streets to New York boardrooms and Nazi offices while quietly shaping history from the shadows.