John Twelve Hawks

John Twelve Hawks is the pseudonym of a ( his own words ) U.S. writer. His alleged first work is the 2005 in the English and published in 2006 in German language novel Traveler. Of the announced continuation novels of the trilogy is Volume 2, "The Dark River ", published in English and in June 2008, in July 2007 in German. The third volume of the series published with the title "The Golden City" on September 8, 2009 in the United States. In the German translation is, the last part of " Traveler - The Finale" and was published on 20 September 2010.

Details about Hawks are virtually unknown, all public information was derived from his own statements. In an interview with the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, he explained, though to be an American by birth, but not an Indian, which was suspected in view of his pseudonym. He also reveals in the interview: "I'm so old that I still have the German Democratic Republic met in the seventies, the anxiety of the people to be constantly monitored, has greatly impressed me. "

He keeps in contact with his publishers over a not too ortendes satellite phone. At the start of the English audio book edition of his book speaks an electronically distorted voice, the words " Here is John Twelve Hawks ", and after a few remarks about his motives for writing the book: "I live off the grid. "