Странникът

Marcada por un sino implacable, había ocasiones en que Maya hubiera deseado nacer ciega e ignorante. Su infancia no fue la de tantas otras niñas de su edad, y Maya pronto se vio obligada a soportar duras pruebas. Su padre era uno de los últimos Arlequines, superviviente de una estirpe de guerreros protectores de los Viajeros que había sobrevivido a varios intentos de asesinato por parte de los mercenarios de la Tabula. Condicionada por su ascendencia genética, Maya tenía un único objetivo en la vida: proteger, con su propia vida si era necesario, a los Viajeros, seres humanos con la capacidad de saltar hacia mundos paralelos y de retornar a la dimensión terrestre con los conocimientos adquiridos en otros planos de la realidad.

Pero ¿por qué debía ella renunciar a una vida normal? Es más, ¿cómo podía aceptar que su propio padre optara por sacrificarla en nombre de un ideal tan extraño como maldito? ¿Acaso los ciudadanos de a pie, ignorantes de su propio destino, controlados por la Hermandad como si fueran animales condicionados, merecían tal sacrificio por su parte? Las dudas de Maya no la habían dejado en paz desde que se había enterado de una verdad que sólo aceptaría tras la muerte de su padre a manos de la Tabula. Entonces supo que había llegado el momento de actuar. Su misión: viajar a Estados Unidos y proteger a los hermanos Corrigan, los dos últimos Viajeros que quedaban sobre la faz de la tierra, y cuyo destino no era otro que el de cambiar los derroteros de un mundo demasiado corrompido.

En una sociedad futurista sometida a la dictadura de la tecnología, dos hermanos se enfrentarán a la muerte. Gabriel y Michael Corrigan acaban de saber que su padre, a quien creían muerto desde hacía años, está vivo. Ambos hermanos pueden viajar a través del tiempo y el espacio, y los dos buscan a su padre, pero se encuentran en bandos opuestos: Gabriel pretende conocer la verdad de su vida y protegerle de sus enemigos, está del lado de las fuerzas del bien; Michael se ha unido a los «tabulas», servidores de una tecnología todopoderosa que somete en secreto a los ciudadanos, y la razón de su búsqueda es que ve a su padre como una amenaza para su propio poder.

La carrera entre estos dos hermanos por encontrarlo será intensa y muy peligrosa. Viajarán desde los subsuelos de Nueva York y Londres y las ruinas que hay bajo las ciudades de Roma y Berlín hasta una región remota de África, donde se rumorea que se encuentra uno de los más grandes tesoros de toda la historia.

A world that exists in the shadow of our own… the thrilling conclusion to John Twelve Hawks's Fourth Realm trilogy, The Golden City is packed with the knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists that made The Traveler and The Dark River international hits.

John Twelve Hawks's previous novels about the mystical Travelers and the Brethren, their ruthless enemies, generated an extraordinary following around the world. The Washington Post wrote that The Traveler 'portrays a Big Brother with powers far beyond anything Orwell could imagine…' and Publishers Weekly hailed the series as 'a saga that's part A Wrinkle in Time, part The Matrix and part Kurosawa epic.' Internet chat rooms and blogs have overflowed with speculation about the final destiny of the richly imagined characters fighting an epic battle beneath the surface of our modern world.

In The Golden City, Twelve Hawks delivers the climax to his spellbinding epic. Struggling to protect the legacy of his Traveler father, Gabriel faces troubling new questions and relentless threats. His brother Michael, now firmly allied with the enemy, pursues his ambition to wrest power from Nathan Boone, the calculating leader of the Brethren. And Maya, the Harlequin warrior pledged to protect Gabriel at all costs, is forced to make a choice that will change her life forever.

A riveting blend of high-tech thriller and fast-paced adventure, The Golden City will delight Twelve Hawks's many fans and attract a new audience to the entire trilogy.

Втора книга от трилогията „Четвъртият свят“.

След събитията в „Странникът“ Ню Йорк е огласен от потресаваща новина. Бащата на Гейбриъл, който е изчезнал преди много години, може да е още жив и пленен някъде в Европа. Гейбриъл и неговата пазителка арлекин Мая веднага организират бягството си от Ню Йорк и тръгват да търсят отдавна изгубения странник. Едновременно с това Майкъл заповядва на Братството — безскрупулна организация, която преследва Гейбриъл — да започне повсеместно издирване. Гейбриъл копнее да открие баща си и да го защити; Майкъл цели да унищожи мъжа, чието съществуване заплашва новопридобитата му сила. Надпреварата минава през подземните тунели в Ню Йорк и Лондон, руините, скрити под Рим и Берлин, и стига до отдалечено място в Африка, в което според легендата се крие едно от най-големите съкровища в историята. С наближаването на смразяващата развръзка Мая трябва да реши дали ще се откаже от всичко, за да спаси Гейбриъл.

„Тъмната река“ е опияняващо завръщане към места и хора, богато описани в „Странникът“ — пророчество за един свят, в който надеждата и свободата скоро ще изчезнат завинаги.

В „Странникът“ Джон Туелв Хокс ни въвежда в опасен свят, вдъхновен от модерните технологии, които следят живота ни. Под постоянното наблюдение от Голямата машина: модерна компютърна мрежа, ръководена от безскрупулна организация, известна като Братството — обществото не си дава сметка, че живее в затвор. Гейбриъл и Майкъл Кориган, двама братя, отгледани „извън мрежата“, наскоро са научили, че са странници също като изчезналия си баща — хора, способни да пътуват в различни светове на съзнанието и да подбуждат света към съпротива срещу контрола. Но силата действа различно при двамата братя. В края на „Странникът“ Гейбриъл се колебае дали да поеме товара на отговорността. Майкъл се възползва от случая и се присъединява към врага.

In the shadows of our modern society, an ancient conflict between good and evil is being fought. A life-and-death battle we will never see, between those who wish to control history and those who will risk their lives for freedom and enlightenment… Los Angeles: A city where you have to work hard to live beneath the surface. Gabriel and Michael Corrigan are trying to do just that. Since childhood, the brothers have been shaped by the stories that their mystical father, a man of strange powers and intuition, has told them about the world in which they live. After his violent death, they have been living 'off the grid' – that is, invisible to the intricate surveillance networks that monitor our modern lives. London: Maya, a tough and feisty young woman, is playing at being a citizen, is playing at leading a normal life. But her background is anything but. Trained to fight since she was a young girl, she is the last in a long line whose duty is to protect the gifted among us. When she is summoned to Prague by her ailing father, she learns that Gabriel and Michael's lives are in danger and are in desperate need of protection. Prague: Nathan Boone, a disciplined and amoral mercenary, watches Maya leave the meeting with her father before brutally killing him. Tasked to hunt down the brothers, he tracks Maya as she seeks to fulfil what turns out to be her father's last command. When Maya flies to California to find them, an extraordinary chase begins, the final running battle in the war which will reveal the secret history of our time…

A frantic race to save a long-lost Traveler.

An epic battle for freedom.

Two brothers whose power puts them on a collision course…with each other.

In The Traveler, John Twelve Hawks introduced readers to a dangerous world inspired by the modern technology that monitors our lives. Under constant surveillance of the ‘Vast Machine,' a sophisticated computer network run by a ruthless group, society is mostly unaware of its own imprisonment. Gabriel and Michael Corrigan, brothers who were raised “off the grid,” have recently learned they are Travelers like their long-lost father- part of a centuries-old line of prophets able to journey to different realms of consciousness and enlighten the world to resist being controlled. But power affects the brothers differently. As The Traveler ends, Gabriel hesitates under the weight of responsibility. Michael seizes the opportunity-and joins the enemy.

THE DARK RIVER opens in New York City with a stunning piece of news. Gabriel's father, who has been missing for nearly twenty years, may still be alive and trapped somewhere in Europe. Gabriel and his Harlequin protector, Maya, immediately mobilize to escape New York and find the long-lost Traveler. Simultaneously, Michael orders the Brethren-the ruthless group that has been hunting Gabriel-into a full-scale search. Gabriel yearns to find his father to protect him; Michael aims to destroy the man whose existence threatens his newfound power. The race moves from the underground tunnels of New York and London to ruins hidden beneath Rome and Berlin, to a remote region of Africa that is rumored to harbor one of history's greatest treasures. And as the story moves toward its chilling conclusion, Maya must decide if she will trade everything to rescue Gabriel.

A mesmerizing return to the places and people so richly portrayed in The Traveler, THE DARK RIVER is propelled by edge-of-the-seat suspense and haunted by a vision of a world where both hope and freedom are about to disappear.