Review: Still more brilliance from Beck
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 7, 2013
Awesome.As with all my other review's of Beck's books, I will say that the research involved in writing this one is excellent. The science utilised in The First Bird: Episode Two, is flawless.The first book in this series took us on the trip through the heart of the Amazon, searching for a creature long thought extinct. Then, it left us right at the point when it was about to get really exciting.This second volume takes up where the first left off, as Matt Kearns (the protagonist) ventures into a forgotten world, isolated from the rest of the planet and lost in time. Flora and fauna from millennia gone flourishes, and the exploration team finds themselves, as the synopsis puts it, a part of the food chain, but not at the top.Another excellent and taut thriller from a writer who seems to be just reaching his stride.Engaging, well-paced, and eminently believable, I highly recommend this for any fan of Matthew Reilly, James Rollins or Warren Fahy.Five stars, which it deserves.