King's Ransom

Five innocent hostages. Five private investigators. A fiendish ransom game. Has Detective Sam Speedman met his match? A fast and deadly Matthew Reilly thriller.

A DARING ABDUCTION
The richest man in the world has been kidnapped, along with his four children.

A DEADLY CHALLENGE
The kidnapper's demand: five of America's finest private detectives must gather in New York and solve a deadly sequence of riddles and ransoms to recover the missing family.

THE FIFTH DETECTIVE
The last detective to arrive in New York is Sam Speedman. Skinny, bespectacled and brilliant, Sam is different to most other detectives.

But as the bodies mount, and the puzzles twist in on themselves, Sam is going to discover that appearances can be deceiving and that maybe some villains are best left alone...