[1] Described as a "thriller for film fans" by the Sydney Morning Herald,[2] while providing greater insight into "the world of Jack West Jr., his family and upbringing – shining further light on what makes him tick" in The Six Sacred Stones Matthew Reilly "presents readers a cliff hanger of a scale rarely seen in a fiction series".

The Six Sacred Stones picks up eighteen months later, 20 August 2007, on Easter Island, the geographical opposite of the Great Pyramid, when seven men use a second Capstone to counteract the power of the Tartarus sunspot and remove Australia's invincibility.

With his research partner, Yobu 'Tank' Tanaka, Wizard discovers the cryptic message referring to the Tartarus Sunspot and the use of the Sa-Benben, or Firestone, the top piece of the capstone from the previous book.

They meet up with twin Scottish maths geniuses Lachlan and Julius Adamson, and use the Firestone in conjunction with the altar stone at Stonehenge to reveal the locations of the Six Vertices where the Pillars must be placed.

At the first Vertex, the first pillar is laid and the reward mentioned in Wizard's notes – 'knowledge' – is revealed in the Word of Thoth on its sides (in the form of a batch of complicated equations relating to the laws of physics and the universe, much of which modern scientists had not yet figured out).

Wolf's co-conspirators Vulture and Scimitar are allowed to send Stretch to the Mossad, who have put an enormous price on his head in revenge for his disobeying their orders at the Hanging Gardens of Babylon (see Seven Ancient Wonders).

Meanwhile, on the Halicarnassus Lily mentions she overheard Iolanthe telling Jack that the second pillar was guarded by the Neetha tribe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

However, the damaged plane will not be able to reach the DRC, so Sky Monster (the New Zealand pilot) puts it down in Rwanda, and Zoe, Wizard, Lily, and Alby head out to meet with an old friend, Solomon Kol, who will take them into the Congo.

Following the transponder signature of Zoe's group's helicopter, Wolf follows behind them into the valley with a large force of Congolese mercenaries and launches an attack on the Neetha tribe.

Around this time the Adamson twins locate the second Vertex themselves, close to Table Mountain, South Africa, and send the message to the Halicarnassus shortly before the Japanese Blood Brotherhood arrives to take them captive.

It's revealed that four days earlier, Jack West escaped from the pit in the Ethiopian mine, rescued Pooh Bear from sacrifice, and freed the enslaved Jewish miners.

In gratitude, the miners give him the sacred stones that Wolf had been using them to dig for – the Twin Tablets of Thutmosis, which contain the final incantation to activate the Machine when all the pillars are placed.

Switchblade attempts to sabotage the mission by dropping the Second Pillar into the bottomless abyss beneath the Vertex before it is inlaid, dooming the world and depriving the Americans of its reward, 'Heat' (believed to be a limitless power-source).

Zoe, Sky Monster, Lily, and Wizard, on board the Halicarnassus on an airfield in Botswana, had been in phone contact with Jack to help him avoid the traps at the Vertex and see the whole thing happen on the videophone.