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John Twelve Hawks

Biography

John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks is the author of the New York Times bestseller THE TRAVELER, the first book in a trilogy that includes THE DARK RIVER and THE GOLDEN CITY. The Fourth Realm trilogy has been translated into 25 languages. Known as “JTH” by his readers, Hawks followed the trilogy with SPARK, a stand-alone novel, and a nonfiction book, AGAINST AUTHORITY: Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States. His readers have translated this e-book into multiple languages.

For more than 20 years, JTH has lived a deliberately “anonymous life” to show his resistance to the continual government and corporate attack on privacy. He has discussed his life choices in a published essay, Writing as the Sky Rains Death. In addition, Hawks and the British DJ, John Digweed, created The Traveler Album, a musical collaboration that combined spoken passages of the novel with progressive house music.

JTH worked as a war correspondent and turned to fiction to understand a fractured reality. Like several of his characters, he has lived in London, New York City, Paris and Berlin.

John Twelve Hawks

Books by John Twelve Hawks

by John Twelve Hawks - Dystopian, Fiction, Science Fiction

In a post-pandemic future where AI has infiltrated daily life, the line between what is real and what is digital has eroded to nothing. As long as she can remember, 10-year-old Kate has felt like someone was watching her. She has been orphaned since the pandemic, her foster parents find her eccentric and off-putting, and her legal guardian is nowhere to be seen. Now, an algorithm has predicted the very worst --- within 30 days, Kate will either be killed or become a killer. When two police officers arrive at her home in Maine intending to implant her with a tracking device, Kate is urged by her trusted AI Interactive Toy (a talking stuffed seal named Zeno) to make an immediate escape. Confused and looking for answers, the girl sets a course for New York City and begins an Orwellian journey into the unknown.

by John Twelve Hawks - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Jacob Underwood is a hired assassin. Suffering from a condition that causes people to believe they are dead, Jacob perceives himself as nothing but a Shell with no emotion and no sense of right or wrong. Jacob's handler assigns him the task of tracking down an associate who has disappeared and neutralizing her. 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.