Novels by Matthew Thayer
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As with many journalists, I had a novel rattling around my brain. After years of rewriting the first chapter in my head, I finally decided it was time to sink or swim. Either write the darn book or quit thinking about it. The result was the publication in 2012 of, 30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Bordeaux. Over the next 10 years, that ebook became a series of seven. (With another on the backburner.) The 30,000 B.C. Chronicles flesh out the adventures and many challenges of a science expedition from the year 2220 which is shipwrecked in the lush and wild Stone Age.
About midway through the string of time-jump sagas, I paused to write a book about journalists working for a small, struggling newspaper set in 1980s Honolulu titled, Nikki Tiger. This action thriller tips its cap to an era when newspapers were fat, reporters were highly respected, cameras used film and a staffer out in the field needed a quarter to make a phone call.
All eight books are available on Amazon Kindle. Book Five of the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles, New York, is also available in print on Amazon. Big thanks to outstanding artist, Darko Tomic, for creating the cover for every book.
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NIKKI TIGER pays sizzling homage to newspaper journalism in its heyday. Set in 1980s Honolulu, this mystery thriller headlines the staff of The Coconut Wireless, a struggling weekly newspaper dedicated to out-reporting the big city's dailies. Not long after a raw but talented intern joins the paper, the staff breaks three blockbuster stories in one edition. The ink is barely dry when deadly pushback strikes from unknown foes.
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Bordeaux – Shipwrecked in the Paleolithic with their modern gear slowly turning to dust, members of a scientific expedition go native to survive. The 30,000 B.C. Chronicles begin with Bordeaux, a tale of love and action set in a prehistoric world. The time travelers from dried-out, overpopulated year 2233 are beached on a European continent that is a sea of green. Home to outsized megafauna, forests without end and mind-boggling sea life, it is a land unspoiled. There is also danger at every turn. The explorers soon join Cro-Magnon clans to survive. They find that man’s basic needs, the desire for companionship and comfort, the fear of death, and the eternal question of, “what comes after?”
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Tuscany – Leaving a trail of carnage as he preaches his warped brand of religion to a growing Cro-Magnon army, empire builder Lorenzo Martinelli takes his campaign into the boot of pre-historic Italy. The madman’s modern shipmates face many challenges as they attempt to halt his crusade before it disrupts the future of mankind. Tuscany is the second book in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles, an action series of love and exploration in a world dominated by mammoth and wolf pack.
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Gibraltar – Taking two very different routes north, members of the Green Turtle Clan begin their quest to find the wreckage of the Einstein IV timeship. Diligent Chief Botanist Dr. Maria Duarte and her lover, Hawaiian waterman Paul Kaikane, brave the open seas in a small, jury-rigged sailboat, stopping to study the Neanderthal of southern Spain along the way. Dandy Salvatore Bolzano bends the rules as he and Capt. Juniper Jones accompany native members of the clan in a perilous, thrilling trek across prehistoric France.
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Galway – Shipwrecked in the Paleolithic with their modern tools and weapons long turned to dust, survivors of a scientific time travel expedition join their native clan mates on a brutal crossing of the northern ice shelf in search of would-be rescuers from the year 2233. Galway is the fourth book in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles series. Journeying from the Cliffs of Dover to the coast of Stone Age Ireland, the characters compare the bounty of the wild, prehistoric land against memories of the scorched, used-up Earth they left behind. Their trip is turned upside down by the arrival of the Hunter.
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: Rome – Weaving a storyline that spans from the Paleolithic to Nero's Empire and on to the drought-ravaged, war-torn 2200s, Rome is an epic continuation of the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles book series. Shipwrecked time travelers Dr. Maria Duarte, Cpl. Salvatore Bolzano, Spc. Paul Kaikane and Capt. Juniper Jones have settled into comfortable lives in Italy: fashioning homes, making native friends and crafting creature comforts like wine, prosciutto and cheese. They have free time to recount intriguing memories of home and the future. Despite their contentment, duty forces the scientific explorers to commit to a long-postponed voyage to North America. The return of powerful troublemaker Hunter throws a wrench into departure preparations. Besides stirring the pot in the Stone Age, Hunter shares a tantalizing glimpse of Ancient Rome in the months leading up to the Great Fire of 64 A.D.
30,000 B.C. Chronicles: New York – New York delivers a wickedly imaginative plunge into NYC's distant and recent past, as well as its star-crossed future. Award-winner Matthew Thayer deftly weaves engaging characters, vivid descriptors and thoughtful plot into a captivating, time-bending epic. Feel the crash of mastodons and hear saber-tooth cats roar as you roam New York with its first explorers. Christen the Erie Canal and float in a submarine above drowned Broadway. New York is the sixth book in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles, an adventure series about the survivors of a futuristic science expeditionary team shipwrecked in the Paleolithic.
Reunite with characters you love, or fall for them for the first time, as Babylon rocks the Cradle of Civilization. Book Seven in the 30,000 B.C. Chronicles series puts flesh on the prehistory of Mesopotamia, long an incubator for mankind's inventiveness, artistic brilliance and penchant for trouble. Experience the tumult of the Fertile Crescent as it was in the wild Paleolithic. Stirring homage is also paid to the Bronze Age and its revolutionary advances. Award-winner Matthew Thayer deftly weaves engaging characters, vivid descriptors and thoughtful plot into a time-bending epic. Babylon slips readers inside the lives of time travelers shipwrecked in the Stone Age. Four decades after first being marooned on the coast of Bordeaux, the explorers find themselves shipwrecked again, this time in the Arabian Sea. Can the wily survivors use the tricks they have learned to see them through their most-deadly challenge yet?
The release date for Book Eight, Dover, has been postponed indefinitely.