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John Twelve Hawks

    1 gennaio 2000

    La vera identità dell'autore John Twelve Hawks, noto anche come J12H/JXIIH, è sconosciuta. Comunica esclusivamente tramite internet e un telefono irrintracciabile, senza mai aver incontrato il suo editore. Sebbene siano sorte numerose speculazioni sulla sua vera persona, la sua voce narrativa unica e le misteriose circostanze che circondano la sua opera affascinano i lettori.

    John Twelve Hawks
    The dark river
    The golden city
    Spark
    The Traveller
    • The Traveller

      • 608pagine
      • 22 ore di lettura

      Their lives shaped by their father's role as a Traveler, an elite prophet able to attain pure enlightenment, Gabriel and Michael Corrigan become a target of the Tabulas, a ruthless cadre seeking world domination

      The Traveller
      3,9
    • Spark

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      Edgy, hard-core, and wildly imaginative, this thriller features an assassin-narrator unlike anyone we've seen before, set in a present-day dystopia. Jacob Underwood is a contract employee of the Special Services Section, a shadow department in the faceless multinational corporation DBG. Jacob is not a businessman; he is a hired assassin, and his job is to neutralize problems deemed unacceptable by the corporation. Suffering from Cotard's syndrome, Jacob perceives himself as nothing but a Shell with no emotion and no sense of right or wrong. Emily Buchanan is a bright young second-year associate for DBG, and she has disappeared without a trace. Suspecting she may have stolen valuable information and a fortune from the company, Jacob's handler assigns him the task of tracking her down and neutralizing her. Jacob's condition allows him to carry out assignments with ruthless, logical precision—devoid of guilt, fear, or dishonor. But as his new assignment draws him inside a labyrinthine network of dark dealings, Jacob finds himself up against something he is completely incapable of understanding. Spark is an ingenious and chilling vision of modern-day humanity under constant, invasive surveillance and a pulse-pounding game of cat and mouse.

      Spark
      3,7
    • The golden city

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      Spændingsroman. Gabriel comes close to finding his father only to encounter an unimaginable new threat, while his brother Michael, firmly allied with the enemy, endeavors to wrest power from the leaders of the Brethren

      The golden city
      3,6
    • The dark river

      • 512pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      At the start of the engrossing second entry in the Fourth Realm trilogy, the Brethren continue to control civilization through a computerized information system, the Vast Machine, and a host of offshoot surveillance technologies. Opposed to the Brethren are the Travelers, an ancient clan with the mystical ability to slip in and out of several dimensions. The Travelers are guarded by Halequins, a warrior caste with sharp swords and ferociously lethal skills. In the Cain and Abel story at the book's heart, the quest of two Travelers, brothers Gabriel and Michael Corrigan, to find their legendary father has split them irrevocably: Gabriel fights for the forces of good, Miahael has turned to the dark side

      The dark river
      3,5