King’s Ransom: A Detective Sam Speedman Thriller

$49.99

ISBN: 9781761775703

Format: Hardback

Pub Date: 29/09/2026

Category: Thriller / Suspense, Crime & Mystery, Adventure, FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Places / United States, FICTION / Neurodiversity, FICTION / City Life

Imprint: Macmillan Australia

Price: $49.99

Pages: 512

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 four of his children.

THE DEADLY CHALLENGE

The kidnapper's demand: the five best private detectives in America must come to the missing tech billionaire's penthouse in New York City by noon and engage in a deadly series of riddles and ransoms to find and recover him and his children.

THE FIFTH DETECTIVE

Among the five investigators brought to New York is Sam Speedman.

Skinny, bespectacled and brilliant, Sam is different to most other detectives.

But as the situation escalates and the bodies mount, Sam is going to discover that appearances can be deceiving and that maybe some villains are best left alone...

Author Information

Matthew Reilly is the internationally bestselling author of the Scarecrow series, the Jack West series and numerous standalone novels. His books are published in over 20 languages with worldwide sales of over 8 million copies. He directed the no.1 Netflix film Interceptor, which he co-wrote with Stuart Beattie.

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