The Three Secret Cities

Jack West Jr, Book 5

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

The thrilling bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the Jack West Jr series with new novel Mr Einstein's Secretary out now.

BOOK 5 IN THE JACK WEST JR SERIES

A SHADOW WORLD

When Jack West Jr won the Great Games, he threw the four legendary kingdoms into turmoil.

BEHIND THE REAL WORLD

Now these dark forces are coming after Jack...in ruthless fashion.

CRASHING INTO OUR WORLD

With the end of all things rapidly approaching, Jack must find three incredible lost cities of legend.

It's an impossible task by any reckoning, but Jack must do it while he is being hunted...

This audiobook comes with supplementary material, you can download this material at the following link: https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/The-Three-Secret-Cities_9781760784164_Supplementary_Material.pdf

PRAISE FOR The Three Secret Cities

'One of the best action-thrillers published in the past few years' - Washington Post

'An ending that will perhaps make you rethink everything you took for granted about his books' - Sunday Age

fantastic

cant wait for the next one , how long do we have to wait? .
How your brain work is amazing

missing 1 to2 second at each chapter

loved it a great read and altogether great end but very sad at the many great character deaths

Jack's Back

What can you say about an author like Matthew Reilly, a series like the Jack West Junior novels and the new world blending? Awesome doesn't really do it justice.

Every single book, without fail, has me cheering, laughing and using a couple of tissues. Every single book takes you to new heights and far greater lows (excluding Libby's death which still gets me more than anything).

Matthew's books are ones that I will reread for the rest of my life, I'll show them to my kids and I'll read them all over again. I'm counting the days till we get a Huntsman or Scarecrow TV show. If there is an author who will make sure their books are done properly it's MR. A movie wouldn't do them justice.

Back to this book, everything clicked for me and it was like a few weeks had passed since I put down its predecessor (4LK). I was pulled back in, the double prologues were perfect for this. The introduction of new characters, the communication with peripheral favourites. the emails. The blend of ancient knowledge with modern storytelling. If someone can produce a list of the top 5 "things" in this novel I'd like to see it. So many elements deserve to be mentioned.

I'd ay that this was your masterpiece but I'll be wrong when the next one comes out and that surpasses it. I only have one criticism, my heart strings can't handle many more tugs. Good lord man.

I was saving this for a Christmas read(/listen) so I could do it justice... it turned into a Christmas Day read because I couldn't stop.

PS: I love the interviews at the end, The new additions to the Huntsman ally's list need their own book. Plus one of them needs to meet Sky Monster and they need to talk planes. A quiet scene between two pilots would be gold.

PPS: What happened to the maroon and gold submarine?