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The Delta Devlin Collection, Books 1–3
For the first time—in honor of the late Matthew Mather, the master of technothrillers—all three titles in the exhilarating Delta Devlin series are now available in a discounted box set.
With a new foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith, this is a series worth losing your head over.
Book 1: The Dreaming Tree
After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can—visions created by a mutation to her eyes—and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events …
Book 2: Meet Your Maker
Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex–KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building. As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin follows Korshunov and infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness.
Book 3: Out of Time
Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and newly promoted Marshal Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City—one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career. As events in the present collide in a tangle of secrets and lies, Delta cannot trust anyone—even her family and loved ones.
With a new foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith, this is a series worth losing your head over.
Book 1: The Dreaming Tree
After a near-fatal car crash, Royce Lowell-Vandeweghe wakes up to find he’s one of the first patients to undergo a radical new a full-body transplant. Convalescing years later and suffering from waking nightmares, he answers the door at his Long Island home and meets Delta Devlin, a New York detective. She sees things nobody else can—visions created by a mutation to her eyes—and meeting Royce sets off an unraveling chain of events …
Book 2: Meet Your Maker
Interpol rookie Delta Devlin witnesses an attempted assassination, but the bullet meant for the Ukrainian prime minister hits her father instead, lodging next to his heart. Investigations reveal that ex–KGB operator Yuri Korshunov smuggled a 3D-printed plastic gun into the UN Building. As her father falls into a mysterious coma, Devlin follows Korshunov and infamous tech wunderkind Lenny Bondar into the underworld of Eastern Europe. There, her worst nightmares materialize from the darkness.
Book 3: Out of Time
Critical components of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest machine ever built, have been stolen, and newly promoted Marshal Delta Devlin is brought in by Interpol to investigate. At the same time, a dead body appears on the shores of the East River in Delta’s hometown of New York City—one with very similar injuries to those left by the serial killer she caught to start her career. As events in the present collide in a tangle of secrets and lies, Delta cannot trust anyone—even her family and loved ones.
1115 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 28, 2023
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About the author
Matthew Mather
40 books1,822 followersMatthew is the million-copy bestselling author of CyberStorm and Darknet, and the hit series Nomad and Atopia Chronicles. He started out his career working at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines, going on to become one of the world's leading members of the cybersecurity community. In between he's worked in a variety of start-ups,everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records to weather prediction systems. He spends his time between Montreal and Charlotte, NC.
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February 9, 2024
THE DREAMING TREE:
To be honest, getting to know Delta Devlin was the only upside to this tale. The entire story took too long to tell.
Royce V’s story could have been interesting if it wasn’t unnecessarily (in my opinion) dragged out - padded - the concept was intriguing and interesting. Also, it didn’t flow from chapter to chapter, given that it had, not only different points of view, but different scenes/characters within those points of view which seemed unconnected. (It’s hard to explain coherently, my best attempt is to say that practically every chapter ends on a cliffhanger and starts again with the same character in the next chapter, with no continuity).
In short, I didn’t enjoy this story. I listened to the audiobook version of this title, which I think would have been more enjoyable if it has been abridged. 2⭐️’s.
MEET YOUR MAKER:
In this story, Devlin is with Interpol in Europe. The story is as equally complicated as the previous one (not compelling, just complicated)… she doesn’t actually allow people to finish their sentences, she’s always interrupting them. This is very annoying and succeeds in dragging the story along, rather than creating tension and atmosphere, which I assume is what the author was aiming for. Fail.
However, this story is marginally better than the first and leads me to believe that, I do not, in fact, enjoy his writing style…
2½ ⭐️’s
OUT OF TIME:
Pay no attention to my reviews, I just didn’t gel with this series or the protagonist. Everything is geared around her - quite literally - everything that goes wrong, is going wrong because she’s reading everything wrong, isn’t trusting anyone and therefore not discussing anything with anyone else! Once again a long and convoluted tale with way too much subplots and again, it took far too long to tell.
The base storyline is not necessarily too bizarre to be credible, but her handling of it is… I’m surprised that she has any friends to be honest. I for one am not a fan, but I’m definitely in the minority.
This tale has lowered my rating back to 2⭐️’s (I think that, that’s a generous rating).
To be honest, getting to know Delta Devlin was the only upside to this tale. The entire story took too long to tell.
Royce V’s story could have been interesting if it wasn’t unnecessarily (in my opinion) dragged out - padded - the concept was intriguing and interesting. Also, it didn’t flow from chapter to chapter, given that it had, not only different points of view, but different scenes/characters within those points of view which seemed unconnected. (It’s hard to explain coherently, my best attempt is to say that practically every chapter ends on a cliffhanger and starts again with the same character in the next chapter, with no continuity).
In short, I didn’t enjoy this story. I listened to the audiobook version of this title, which I think would have been more enjoyable if it has been abridged. 2⭐️’s.
MEET YOUR MAKER:
In this story, Devlin is with Interpol in Europe. The story is as equally complicated as the previous one (not compelling, just complicated)… she doesn’t actually allow people to finish their sentences, she’s always interrupting them. This is very annoying and succeeds in dragging the story along, rather than creating tension and atmosphere, which I assume is what the author was aiming for. Fail.
However, this story is marginally better than the first and leads me to believe that, I do not, in fact, enjoy his writing style…
2½ ⭐️’s
OUT OF TIME:
Pay no attention to my reviews, I just didn’t gel with this series or the protagonist. Everything is geared around her - quite literally - everything that goes wrong, is going wrong because she’s reading everything wrong, isn’t trusting anyone and therefore not discussing anything with anyone else! Once again a long and convoluted tale with way too much subplots and again, it took far too long to tell.
The base storyline is not necessarily too bizarre to be credible, but her handling of it is… I’m surprised that she has any friends to be honest. I for one am not a fan, but I’m definitely in the minority.
This tale has lowered my rating back to 2⭐️’s (I think that, that’s a generous rating).
April 1, 2023
Keeps You locked in…
I had only read 1 book by this author before his untimely death. Out of respect for his talent, and a desire to in some small way help support his wife & children, I will buy every book he ever wrote, started or helped others to publish. In a time when so much of the future he wrote about is actually happening, these books offer an escape. Ironically, it is almost as if we are living in the multiverse, experiencing one version in our real lives while reading of another in these books. The question is, which is actual reality. I read all 3 book in less than 48 hours-that is how incredible they are. Highly recommended, and his new series is even far better(which seems impossible)! Please read all of his books & if you agree, but hardback or paperbacks and get your friends to join the adventure. Thanks Matthew Maher, May you continue your writing in Heaven, or whatever parallel universe you may be…
I had only read 1 book by this author before his untimely death. Out of respect for his talent, and a desire to in some small way help support his wife & children, I will buy every book he ever wrote, started or helped others to publish. In a time when so much of the future he wrote about is actually happening, these books offer an escape. Ironically, it is almost as if we are living in the multiverse, experiencing one version in our real lives while reading of another in these books. The question is, which is actual reality. I read all 3 book in less than 48 hours-that is how incredible they are. Highly recommended, and his new series is even far better(which seems impossible)! Please read all of his books & if you agree, but hardback or paperbacks and get your friends to join the adventure. Thanks Matthew Maher, May you continue your writing in Heaven, or whatever parallel universe you may be…
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December 5, 2024Tried all three books. Not what I thought. Couldn't take it.
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