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* ActionSurvivor: William Race is just language professor, but he manages to survive run-ins with giant panthers, crocodiles, Neo-Nazis, death cultists, and rogue military forces to save the day.
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* ActionSurvivor: William Race is just language professor, but he manages to survive run-ins with giant panthers, crocodiles, caiman alligators, Neo-Nazis, death cultists, and rogue military forces to save the day.
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* AssholeVictim: A whole lot of them.
** Buzz Cochrane, one of the Green Berets who is a crass jerk, gets left behind at the temple after the Neo-Nazis steal the idol. Astthe end of the book we learn that the rapas got him.
** [[spoiler:Lauren gets shot by the man she was cheating on her husband with after learning he was a death cultist who just using her.]]
** [[spoiler:William's brother Martin, who sold out William and was happily going to watch him get executed, gets shot and killed by the death cultists in his moment of victory. Double points because he was Lauren's husband and found out that she'd been cheating on him just before they both get shot.]]
** Buzz Cochrane, one of the Green Berets who is a crass jerk, gets left behind at the temple after the Neo-Nazis steal the idol. Astthe end of the book we learn that the rapas got him.
** [[spoiler:Lauren gets shot by the man she was cheating on her husband with after learning he was a death cultist who just using her.]]
** [[spoiler:William's brother Martin, who sold out William and was happily going to watch him get executed, gets shot and killed by the death cultists in his moment of victory. Double points because he was Lauren's husband and found out that she'd been cheating on him just before they both get shot.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:Lauren O'Connor, William's old college flame, turns out to be a member of the Army and was specifically brought on the mission by Colonel Nash to lure Race into joining. She, however, is already married to William's brother, but is cheating on him with another member of the Army team.]]
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* TheChosenOne: Renco Capac is believed by the Incas to be a Chosen One, as revealed by the birthmark under his left eye, the same birthmark William Race has. The Chosen One will safeguard the idol and prevent its theft by outsiders. The ending of the novel, however, implies that Race was the real Chosen One.
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: The final piece of the manuscript reveals that Alberto Santiago and Renco Capac survived their fight with Hernando Pizzaro and the rapas and spent their remaining years in good friendship with the guardians of the temple. Alberto even marries Lena and enjoys a long and happy marriage with her before their both peacefully die of old age surrounded by their family.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The manuscript details the adventures of Alberto Santiago, a Spanish monk who came to the New World. He befriends an Incan prince named Renco Capac and helps him escape imprisonment so Renco can take the idol to the last hiding place of the Incas, the eponymous temple.
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* {{MacGuffin}}: The story revolves around a race to see who can find and recover a lost Incan idol. The idol is made from a very rare, non-terrestrial material (it was carved from a meteorite) which means it's the only known item that can power the Supernova.
* PairTheSpares: At the end, Doogie Kennedy, the last surviving Green Beret, hooks up with Gaby Lopez, the Army team's anthropologist.
* PantheraAwesome: The temple is guarded by a pack of rapas, giant, man-eating panthers that kill anyone trying to steal the idol. One of the tests of the Chosen One is finding a way to lure the rapa back into the temple once they're released and then getting out of the temple alive.
* PairTheSpares: At the end, Doogie Kennedy, the last surviving Green Beret, hooks up with Gaby Lopez, the Army team's anthropologist.
* PantheraAwesome: The temple is guarded by a pack of rapas, giant, man-eating panthers that kill anyone trying to steal the idol. One of the tests of the Chosen One is finding a way to lure the rapa back into the temple once they're released and then getting out of the temple alive.
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* PosthumousCharacter: Naturally, since it was written in the 1500s, the characters from the manuscript are long dead by the time Race reads their story.
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* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler:As punishment for stealing the idol, Colonel Nash gets his hands hacked off by the natives and then sacrificed to the rapas.]]
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: [[spoiler:About two thirds of the way into the book, Race finds out that the idol everyone has been chasing is actually a fake that was planted in the temple by Renco. Race deduces that the real idol is being held by the native tribe living on the plateau above the temple.]]
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* ActionSurvivor: William Race is just language professor, but he manages to survive run-ins with giant panthers, crocodiles, Neo-Nazis, death cultists, and rogue military forces to save the day.
* AnyoneCanDie: As per tradition in a Matthew Reilly book, no one is safe. The most shocking death is probably [[spoiler:Van Lewen, Race's Green Beret bodyguard, who gets executed by Colonel Nash for trying to save Race.]]
* AnyoneCanDie: As per tradition in a Matthew Reilly book, no one is safe. The most shocking death is probably [[spoiler:Van Lewen, Race's Green Beret bodyguard, who gets executed by Colonel Nash for trying to save Race.]]
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* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Colonel Nash]] at first seems like a friendly and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure reasonable]] guy, but towards the end it's revealed he's a sociopath who doesn't blink at killing his own men and fellow countrymen for control of the Supernova.
* GotVolunteered: Race is "recruited" by the Army to translate the manuscript. Said recruitment involves armed soldiers showing up at his office and his boss more or less saying that his job is on the line.
* InterserviceRivalry: A deadly serious version, with elements of the U.S. Army and Navy willing to kill each other over control of the Supernova. With Congress on the verge of disbanding one of the branches of the military, they're all in a competition to prove their worth and the Supernova is one hell of a trump card.
* GotVolunteered: Race is "recruited" by the Army to translate the manuscript. Said recruitment involves armed soldiers showing up at his office and his boss more or less saying that his job is on the line.
* InterserviceRivalry: A deadly serious version, with elements of the U.S. Army and Navy willing to kill each other over control of the Supernova. With Congress on the verge of disbanding one of the branches of the military, they're all in a competition to prove their worth and the Supernova is one hell of a trump card.
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* BigBulkyBomb: The [[DoomsdayDevice Supernova]] in ''Temple'' is absolutely massive and powerful enough to actually [[PlanetDestroyer destroy the world]].
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*PlanetDestroyer: The [[BigBulkyBomb Supernova]] is absolutely massive and powerful enough to actually [[DoomsdayDevice destroy the world]].
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[[caption-width-right:250:...Some doors are meant to remain unopened.]]
''Temple'' is a 1999 novel by Creator/MatthewReilly. William Race is a language professor tasked with translating a manuscript that will reveal the location of an [[MacGuffin Incan idol]], capable of powering a DoomsdayDevice.
!!''Temple'' contains examples of:
* CanonWelding: The Supernova from ''Temple'' is briefly mentioned in ''Area 7'' and ''Hell Island''.
*ChekhovsClassroom: There's a throwaway sentence from the protagonist about how he'll need to change his PIN after reading a story in the paper about how most people use their birth dates as pass codes. Guess how he defuses the superweapon his brother worked on? Guess again, it wasn't his birthday. But that example was used as a starting point. [[spoiler:His brother always used Elvis' army serial number as his PIN. The Nazi scientist used his supposed date of execution.]]
*PocketProtector: Literature/TheBible version happens here. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the shot was from a flintlock.
%%*TheProfessor: Professor William Race.
*StoryWithinAStory: We get to read the manuscript.
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[[caption-width-right:250:...Some doors are meant to remain unopened.]]
''Temple'' is a 1999 novel by Creator/MatthewReilly. William Race is a language professor tasked with translating a manuscript that will reveal the location of an [[MacGuffin Incan idol]], capable of powering a DoomsdayDevice.
!!''Temple'' contains examples of:
* CanonWelding: The Supernova from ''Temple'' is briefly mentioned in ''Area 7'' and ''Hell Island''.
*ChekhovsClassroom: There's a throwaway sentence from the protagonist about how he'll need to change his PIN after reading a story in the paper about how most people use their birth dates as pass codes. Guess how he defuses the superweapon his brother worked on? Guess again, it wasn't his birthday. But that example was used as a starting point. [[spoiler:His brother always used Elvis' army serial number as his PIN. The Nazi scientist used his supposed date of execution.]]
*PocketProtector: Literature/TheBible version happens here. {{Justified|Trope}} in that the shot was from a flintlock.
%%*TheProfessor: Professor William Race.
*StoryWithinAStory: We get to read the manuscript.
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