7.6 /10 1 Votes
3.8/5 Barnes & Noble Country Australian Originally published 10 November 2014 Page count 515 Publisher Macmillan Publishers | 3.7/5 Goodreads Cover artist IRONGAV Language English ISBN 1476749558 Genres Thriller, Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Set in Guangdong Province, China Publication date 10 November 2014
27 January 2015 Media type Hardback, eBook, Audiobook. Similar Matthew Reilly books, Thriller books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Book review the great zoo of china by matthew reilly
The Great Zoo of China is a 2014 novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly. It was published in November 2014.
Contents
Matthew reilly on his thrilling new book the great zoo of china
Plot
Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron is an alligator expert working as a freelance journalist when she is contacted by National Geographic for an assignment. She is selected to attend a preview of a secret project deep in rural China known as the "Great Zoo of China", and enlists her brother Hamish as a photographer. After being escorted to the Zoo in a private jet with blacked-out windows, CJ discovers the secret nature of the Zoo: it houses living, breathing dragons, and the project is intended to be China's answer to Disneyland.
Success
It was second on the bestsellers list for the week ending November 22, 2014 in Australia, and was a top three contender at Christmas.
Ideas
Reilly claims he came up with the idea from a dragon museum in Switzerland, and says that a zoo full of dragons first occurred to him in 2003. He says he was aiming to make the book a "gleeful monster movie on paper", and described it as "out there".