John Twelve Hawks Still Off the Grid

Posted on December 1, 2006

Remember John Twelve Hawks, the guy who lived off the Grid? You know, no credit cards, no driver's license, no bank accounts, no way to track him? Well he wrote this really interesting thriller, The Traveler in 2005, then pretty much fell back off the Grid, leaving readers wondering what in the world would happen next in the series (including us).

Well, it appears that Mr. Hawks (or whatever he's really called in the no-man's land in which he resides) has actually finished the next book in the series. The next entry in The Fourth Realm series is called The Dark River and it will be published by Doubleday in the summer of 2007.

"I've always seen the trilogy not as three books, but as a very long novel with an international setting. The action of The Dark River will take place in New York, London, Berlin and in a variety of other unusual locations. My goal is to show familiar places in a way that may surprise some people." --John Twelve Hawks

He has also revealed that the Irish Harlequin, Mother Blessing, will be a crucial part of the conflict between the Tabula and the Harlequins and that some of the characters won't survive the whole trilogy.

Clearly we're going to have to re-read The Traveler before next summer so we'll remember where we were when the book left off. This is just taking too long. Does living off the Grid mean he has to write using a quill pen? Can't he make an exception in the name of literature and just use a computer? Because we're really quite impatient and the sequel is just taking too long to appear.

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