A SPORT LIKE NO OTHER
In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Super fast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar.
A BRUTAL QUALIFYING SCHOOL
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...
JASON AND THE ARGONAUT
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...Strap on your seatbelts and hold on tight because the pace of reading just went supersonic! From Matthew Reilly, author of Ice Station and Scarecrow comes his most original novel yet – no less than the fastest story ever told.
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Matthew Reilly was born in Sydney in 1974 and studied Law at the University of New South Wales. After being refected by every major publisher in Australia, Matthew self-published his first novel Contest and went on to secure a contract with Pan Macmillan. His first novel with Pan Macmillan, Ice Station, was a runaway success. His achievements in Australia with Contest, Ice Station and Temple have now been repeated internationally with his novels becoming bestsellers in fourteen countries and nine languages. Film rights to Contest have been sold and the rights to Ice Station are currently being sought after by a number of Hollywood studios.