The Dark River

JOHN TWELVE HAWKS is 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.