- Hardcover: 464 pages
- Publisher: Doubleday Canada; 1st Canadian Edition edition (Jun 28 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385661355
- ISBN-13: 978-0385661355
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16 x 3.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #555,346 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
This production opens with an unintentionally hilarious interview with the author, who "lives off the Grid," according to his bio, and protectively distorts his voice for a discussion of his book's relevance to the contemporary matrix of governmental and corporate interference in daily life. The author's grandiose paranoia is overblown, but Carradine does a solid job of keeping a straight face with his reading. Carradine's gravelly, folksy voice conveys the twists and turns of Hawks' action-adventure narrative, lending a weary dignity to his tale of Maya, a twentysomething scion of a group of mercenaries whose sworn duty it is to protect the Travelers, a secret group of great men. Maya yearns to break free of her obligations, but she is forced to help Gabriel and Michael, two brothers who discover that they are Travelers. Carradine may not be able to save Hawks' book entirely from its aura of pompousness, but he makes a fine effort nonetheless.
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Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Two brothers in Los Angeles may be among the last surviving members of a once-powerful secret society known as the Travelers. But their lives are in jeopardy: they have been targeted for assassination by members of another secret society, the Tabula, who are dedicated to the complete eradication of the Travelers and to total control of the world. All that stands in their way is a young woman, part of a small band of warriors who call themselves Harlequins. Their mission: to protect the Travelers at all costs. If this all sounds a little wacky, don't panic: the author, a gifted storyteller, makes this surreal and vaguely supernatural good-versus-evil story entirely believable. Although he has a lot of explaining to do (he has to tell us about three distinct groups of superbeings, to start with), he manages it without clogging his narrative with whopping great chunks of exposition. He writes about Travelers and Tabula and Harlequins as if we already know what they are; he thrusts us into this world as though we already know it and lets us pick it up as we go along. The pace is fast, the characters intriguing and memorable, the evil dark and palpable, and the genre-bending between fantasy and thriller seamless. There are dozens of ways Twelve Hawks could have tripped up, and he avoids every one of them. Assuming this isn't a one-shot, he could be a force to reckon with. David Pitt
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Over hyped but still a good debut,
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This review is from: The Traveler: The First Novel of "The Fourth Realm" Trilogy (Hardcover)
I agree with an earlier reviewer that this book is being over hyped. I did enjoy it, but it is not "Da Vinci code" caliber. In fact it should not be compared to Da Vinci, other then it is being pumped as the next big thing. The characters somewhat one dimensional, the plot is pretty good showing lots of promise but did not come to full fruition in my opinion. The action scenes where like something out of a summer block buster which I did not care for, like it was written as a screen play. Not at all realistic, but I am sure that is where this book is head (straight to the box office). Overall an interesting debut novel that is entertaining though over hyped.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
goofdsummer read,
By David C Polk (Ottawa Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Traveler: The First Novel of "The Fourth Realm" Trilogy (Hardcover)
"The Traveler" mixes conspiracy theory, science fiction, quantum theory and old fashioned thriller genres to produce a very readable novel. The plot is, of course, overdone and the situations are absurd, but that's what books like this are all about. I recommend it as an excellent summer read
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
BEST BOOK I'VE READ THIS YEAR,
By The Pirate Queen (Toronto) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Traveler: The First Novel of "The Fourth Realm" Trilogy (Hardcover)
I'm giving this novel five stars because it actually made me see the world from a different perspective. It breaks and combines every genre you could think of trying to give you a complete vision of the society we live in right now. I liked the two brothers, Gabriel and Michael, and "Victory From Sin" Fraser (read and you'll find out who she is. But my favorite character was Maya, the young woman forced to claim her role as a Harlequin. She has such tension about her desiny and sees life in a COMPLETELY different way. This was the kind of book that made me say to friends: "Did you know..." but presented all this information in a fast-moving, entertaining way. I can wait for Book Two!
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