Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2527 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-04
• Released on: 2008-01-04
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

Synopsis
After their thrilling exploits in Matthew Reilly's bestseller, "Seven Ancient Wonders", super-soldier Jack West and his loyal team of adventurers are back, and now they face an all-but impossible challenge. For a mysterious ceremony in an unknown location has triggered a catastrophic countdown that will climax in the destruction of all life on Earth. But there is one last hope. If Jack's team can find and rebuild a legendary ancient device known only as the "Machine", they might be able to ward off this coming Armageddon. The only clues to its location, however, are held within the fabled Six Sacred Stones, long lost in the fog of history. And so the hunt begins ...From Stonehenge in England, to the deserts of Egypt, to the spectacular Three Gorges region of China, "The Six Sacred Stones" will take you on a non-stop rollercoaster ride through ancient history, modern military hardware, and some of the fastest and most mind-blowing action you will ever read.

Customer Reviews

Everything you'd expect from Matthew Reilly
As Greg said in his review, if you're looking for thoughtful factual realistic stories then you need to put this book down and head for the grown ups books. Reilly writes action adventure for big kids. History is a there to be used as a starting point and where it goes is straight from the imagination.

The plot is completely mad, the action is none stop, the gadgets and getaways are 3 fields to the the left of the left field, but it's fiction not fact and fiction is supposed to be crazy and wierd.

I love Reilly's books I can read them again and again because they are escapist fun

Indy reborn!
When i picked up my first Matthew Reilly book (Seven Ancient Wonders) I was hooked, I immediately ordered all of his back issues of Contest, Temple, Ice Station, Area 7, and Scarecrow. They were all subsequently devoured within a matter of days!
In "The 6 sacred stones" Reilly returns to my favorite character Jack West Jr, or more simply Huntsman.
This story picks up approximately 18 months after S.A.W. and delivers all the action and adrenaline that are the trademarks of Reilly's method of writing with african cannibals, submarines, and chinese prisons being some of the epic plot devices that are used to keep the story hurtling onwards.
Previous reviews have slated this story for being a part of a series, and while it is a little frustrating, I for one will be eagerly awaiting the next installment.
It is a truly spectacular cliffhanging ending too!
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Can't wait for the sequel
could not put this down, loved every page and didn't want it to end, finally realized towards the end that there had to be a sequel and was most disappointed i had finished it.

Fast paced all the way