The Dark River, John Twelve Hawks
The Dark River, John Twelve Hawks
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The Dark River
Book Two of the Fourth Realm Trilogy

Author: John Twelve Hawks

Narrator: Scott Brick

Abridged: 6 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/10/2007


Synopsis

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.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Carol on 2009-05-01 16:38:38

This second book in the series is complex only because the author leaves so many holes in the story that you have no alternative but to fill in the blanks to move forward. To be honest, I have lost interest in the travelers, and not likely to bother with the third book, if it is ever available.

Goodreads review by Starshine on August 17, 2007

I absolutely LOVED "The Traveler", as can be seen by my 5-Star rating. I couldn't put it down, and I was actually greatly torn between going on to "The Dark River", or reading Book 7 of Harry Potter. Yes, that's how good "The Traveler" was. Harry Potter won out, naturally, but as soon as I put it do......more

Goodreads review by Alex on September 16, 2010

THE DARK RIVER BY JOHN TWELVE HAWKS: John Twelve Hawks returns with The Dark River, the second of the trilogy, after The Traveler, in the Fourth Realm series. We last left off with Gabriel on the run from the Tabula with his Harlequin, Maya, having just sabotaged the Tabula’s quantum computer system......more

Goodreads review by Literary Han on May 15, 2022

Actual rating: 4.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on June 03, 2012

I enjoyed The Traveler, despite its cliches, but with The Dark River, I sometimes found myself embarrassed to be reading it. This was most acute when the story suddenly turned into The Da Vinci Code. Look, I'm not above reading fluff, obviously, but I do draw the line in some places, which is why I'......more

Goodreads review by Hilary on March 16, 2019

A disappointing follow-up to The Traveller (which I really enjoyed). I felt like I was reading a poorly-written book for young adults. There are very irritating and unnecessary synopses of events from the first book (I already read it, thank you) and the author has completely abandoned any attempt at......more


Quotes

RAVES FOR THE TRAVELER

"Page-turningly swift with a cliffhanger ending . . . John Twelve Hawks has drawn upon both pop-cultural and literary touchstones and modified them to create a cyber-1984."
--The New York Times

"The stuff that first-rate high-tech paranoid-schizophrenic thrillers are made of."
--Time

"Portrays a Big Brother with powers far beyond anything Orwell could imagine . . . Political prophecy is rarely such fun."
--The Washington Post

“Seductive . . . Quickly hooks you into its Matrix-esque world . . . [Let] the butt-kicking begin.”
--USA Today