“This novel’s a stunner. . . . You won’t want to put the book down.” –People
Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, finds herself compelled to protect two naive Travelers, Michael and Gabriel Corrigan. Michael dabbles in shady real estate deals, while Gabriel prefers to live “off the Grid,” eschewing any documentation – credit cards, bank accounts – that the Vast Machine could use to track him. Because the Tabula has engineered a way to use the Travelers for its own purposes, Maya must not only keep the brothers alive, but out of the hands of these evil puppet-masters. She succeeds, but she also fails, and therein lies the tale.
By the end of this exciting volume, the first in the Fourth Realm trilogy, the stage is set for a world-rending clash between good and evil.
Praise
“The stuff that first-rate high-tech paranoid-schizophrenic thrillers are made of.” –Time
“A fearless, brilliant action heroine (think Uma Thurman in Kill Bill); a secret history of the world; a tale of brother against brother . . . and nonstop action as the forces of good and evil battle it out. . . . Readers won’t regret taking this wild ride.” –The Times-Picayune
“Gripping. . . . Fresh and fascinating. . . . Impossible to put down.”–Daily News
Quotes from The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
“You don’t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they’re being watched.“
“Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.“
“Walking is easy, but it requires faith to find the right path.“
“Virtue is admirable, but boring.“
“Life is dangerous. That’s what makes it interesting.”
“All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling me to buy things I didn’t need. The message was that people could only be passive victims or consumers.”
“Human beings can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.”
