The true identity of the author is a closely-guarded secret, as is only befitting for a semi-sci-fi thriller (one of many in recent years billed as the next "The Da Vinci Code") about a mysterious quasi-mystical sect known as Travelers. (And you thought they only sold insurance.)
Critic Reviews
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
Twelve Hawks's much anticipated novel is powerful, mainstream fiction built on a foundation of cutting-edge technology laced with fantasy and the chilling specter of an all-too-possible social and political reality.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle David Lazarus
A high-octane thriller that delivers the goods.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Janet Maslin
"The Traveler" is written with unlikely buoyancy. The ponderousness that afflicts so many big visionary books does not take hold here.
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review Gerald Jonas
Twelve Hawks knows how to hide the holes in a fast-moving narrative by piling up believable details about everything from Japanese sword making to the latest eavesdropping technology.
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Favorable
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Washington Post Patrick Anderson
[Twelve Hawks's] prose is smooth, his characters are believable and his pace never slackens.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] John Burns
Ingenious, intelligent and restless. [30 July, 2005]
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Favorable
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Los Angeles Times Paul M. Sammon
Although [The Traveler] is never as clever or affecting as it wants to be, there's much to recommend in this impassioned cultural critique masquerading as mainstream science fiction.
[18 Oct 2005]
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Mixed
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Kirkus Reviews
Saddled with a half-baked antiestablishment mysticism that draws a layer of gauze across all the proceedings.
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Mixed
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Boston Globe Julie Wittes Schlack
In fairness, I did keep turning the pages, because I can forgive wooden dialogue and cartoon characters if the ideas are provocative. But Twelve Hawks failed to develop what was a potentially interesting idea into anything deeper than what you can hear on talk radio.
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Unfavorable
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Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirschling
[Twelve Hawks's] leaden, repetitive ridiculousness soon becomes irksome.
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