Book title : Temple

Book Title: Temple

Deep in the jungles of Peru, the race of the century is underway. A race to locate a legendary Incan idol an idol carved out of a strange kind of stone. A stone which in the late 20th century could be used as the basis for a terrifying new weapon. The US Army wants it at any cost but they are not alone....

The only clue to the idol's final resting place lies in a 400yearold manuscript. Enter Professor William Race, a brilliant young linguist, who is unwittingly recruited to translate the manuscript and lead the Army team to the idol. And so begins the mission that will lead Race and his companions to a mysterious stone temple hidden in the foothills of the Andes. A temple seething with menace and danger. But it is only when the temple is opened that Race and his team discover that they have broken a golden rule: Some doors are meant to remain unopened.

From the author of Ice Station comes a sensational new adventure that will literally leave you gasping for air.
Matthew Reilly is a New York Times best-selling author of eight novels that have been published in eighteen languages in twenty countries. He has sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide. The author in focus for bookandborrow this week is Mathew Reilly.

Years ago (it feels like a lifetime, actually), when our kids were helping to celebrate our first grey hairs with their teenage antics, i was included into a "mom's gang" who had known each other forever, but were crazy enough to include this unsociable, erratic person in their mad lunch meetings. Much water has flowed under the bridge and it is a long time since i managed to attend one of those hilarious, screeching affairs where the food was shared like in a boarding school dormitory (one plate had around 12 spoons stuck into it) and any male listening to the conversation had his ears singed off in shock....

To think that four of those women, in between their heroic treks to mountain locales where they challenged their years and behaved like a bunch of teenagers (okay with hurting knees and hips and feet!!), their intense gym workouts to maintain those amazing figures, their trips here and there on holiday, family business and what-have-you, managed to launch Chennai's first door-delivered online library, and with SUCH chutzpah....amazes and humbles me. I see them in the papers....(hey these guys are serious!), i visit their website (wow, this is so cool) and i join up. Within minutes i get a call from a very professional voice saying "hello this is bookandborrow.com" and then i crack up...it's Raji!! I place my order and, in a day, i get prompt delivery of my books, all clean and plastic encased, with their cheery yellow stickers, a return-cover all addressed and ready, and i wish half the businesses i have dealt with all these years were as enthused, as professional, as ORGANISED.

I guess it takes a bunch of stressed out moms to know how to plan, trouble-shoot, be optimistic, know their strengths and weaknesses and hit the ground running!! Our kids trained us well, huh!!

CONGRATS YOU GORGEOUS WOMEN. CHENNAI DARE NOT STOP READING NOW THAT YOU HAVE AN AGENDA!!!

Devika Mukerji Khazvini