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John Twelve Hawks

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The Traveller
Year 2005
Publisher Bantam Press
ISBN 059305430X
 

 

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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 modern lives.

London: Maya, a tough and feisty young woman, is playing at being a citizen, is playing at leading a normal life.  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 they 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 Corrigan brothers, he tracks Maya as she seeks to fulfill 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 ...

 

 

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John Twelve Hawks is "a gifted storyteller. He makes this surreal and vaguely supernatural good-versus-evil story entirely believable." About the novel he says that the "pace is fast, the characters intriguing and memorable, the evil dark and palpable, and the genre-bending between fantasy and thriller seamless".

David Pitt         

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Artist's rendering of a supermassive black hole

 

 

Credit: NASA

An Unwelcome Place for New Stars
This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence that black holes -- once they grow to a critical size -- stifle the formation of new stars in elliptical galaxies. Black holes are thought to do this by heating up and blasting away the gas that fuels star formation.

The blue color here represents radiation pouring out from material very close to the black hole. The grayish structure surrounding the black hole, called a torus, is made up of gas and dust. Beyond the torus, only the old red-colored stars that make up the galaxy can be seen. There are no new stars in the galaxy.

NASA Image of the day archive

 

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