Prisoner
(The Traveler Chronicles #2)
by Dennis W. Green
Published August 1st 2015 by Mbedzi
Publishing
Trav
Becker is a police detective with multiple lives. Or to be more accurate, he’s
a police detective who knows that multiple versions of himself live in
countless different streams of existence.
When
another Trav Becker appears bleeding and dying at his front door, Trav quickly
realizes that something is dreadfully wrong in the multiverse.
Pursued
by an FBI profiler who believes (with some justification) that Trav is hiding
something, the detective races to save two kidnapped girls while also trying to
sort out why he keeps turning up dead.
Desperate
to preserve his home timeline, Trav is thrust into a hidden war that threatens
to destroy the very fabric of reality itself.
Dennis
Green returns to the universe he created in "Traveler" for another
mind-bending thriller.
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In this trilling second installment of the Traveler Chronicles, Prisoner far exceeded my
expectations. When you begin this story,
be prepared for a page-turning experience like no other. Mr. Green managed to create an extreme amount
of twists and turns along with a thrilling mystery that kept me glued to each
and every page. Also, Mr. Green’s
detailed style of writing really draws you inside with the characters and you
can feel the excitement and frustrations as you travel through the parallel
realities with them.
Prisoner
moves along at a really good pace and the more I got into it the less I wanted
to put it down. The Traveler Chronicles just keeps getting better and better. Not only is it action-packed it is a fun and engaging
read. This is a complex story but one
that is easy to follow and understand thanks to the author's smooth and effortless writing skill. My only complaint I have was the ending
because it left me wanting the next installment NOW!
Prisoner has
all the ingredients needed for a thrilling and exciting read that leaves the
reader eagerly anticipating more. I
highly recommend this book to anyone who loves science fiction/mystery/crime
stories and wants to read something uniquely different.
5 stars
“You’re
pretty confused, I’m sure,” said O’Connor. “I’ve been there. We’ve all been
there.”
There
were a couple of nods from the group.
“Let
me introduce you around,” he continued. “There’ll be time for questions after
you get your bearings.”
Jurassic
shrugged. “Whatever.”
He
sat down heavily at a desk, which in my stream was normally occupied by an
African-American detective named Stevens.
“This
is the weird part,” O’Connor said.
“I
thought I’d already seen the weird part,” I replied.
“Not
even close,” Jurassic said from his seat.
“Little
Mary Sunshine there is Trav Parker,” O’Connor continued, pointing at Jurassic.
He turned to a Trav sitting in what I thought of as Adam’s desk.
“Trav
Gomez.” He gave me a one-finger salute, touching the brim of his Firefly cap.
“Trav
Emdall.” His cap was from The Matrix.
“Trav
Gant.” Babylon 5.
“Trav
Valuk.” Star Wars.
“Trav
Cooper.” Speed Racer.
“Trav
Omar.” Terminator.
“And
I’m…”
“O’Connor,”
I finished for him. He nodded and looked at me expectantly. The others were
watching me, too.
You
ever been in a situation where everybody was in on the joke except you? Well,
when they all are you, you feel extra
stupid.
I
frowned. There was something about these names that was familiar, and everyone
was obviously waiting for me to get it. Which I finally did, but it took a few
minutes.
When
we were college roommates, Sam introduced me to geek culture. Every day when I
came home from class, he was studying with the TV on, watching Star Trek–the original one from the
Sixties. I ignored it for a while, but eventually I got sucked in.
The
original Star Trek led to Star Trek: The Next Generation; which
led to Deep Space Nine, Voyager,
Enterprise.
Then
we branched out. Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1.
Yeah,
I didn’t date much in college.
Movies
were next. I’d seen Star Wars and the
Marvel stuff, of course, but soon found myself sitting through beer and
pizza-fueled binges of The Matrix, Blade
Runner, Dark Star, Shaun of the Dead…
And
Buckaroo Banzai: Adventures Across the
Eighth Dimension.
I
won’t bore you with the synopsis, but suffice it to say, a bunch of the
characters were aliens masquerading as humans, but they didn’t understand human
naming conventions. They knew to take different last names, but all took the
same first name, John.
You
can see where this is going.
John
Parker, John Gomez, John O’Connor, John Gant, John Valuk. Even John YaYa.
I
looked at Trav O’Connor. “You are fucking kidding me.”
O’Connor
turned to Firefly Trav. “Gomez. I think it’s your turn for the Sorting.”
“The
Sorting?” I asked.
“Yeah.
Just like Harry Potter. Only you get to keep the hat.”
Gomez
crossed the room, heading toward a cardboard box sitting on a table. Without
looking, he reached inside. When he withdrew his hand, he was holding a black
ball cap. He tossed it to me. It bore the Stargate SG-1 logo.
“What’s
the next name on the list?” O’Connor asked.
A
Trav in the back of the room, whose cap logo I could not see, had pulled out a
piece of paper. He seemed to be consulting a list, and after a minute, looked
up and smiled.
“Nice,”
he said. “Gentlemen, say hello to Trav BigBootie.”
Everyone
laughed, looking at me expectantly.
I
knew immediately what I was expected to say.
“It’s
Big Boot-TAY.”
Dennis
Green’s first novel, the scifi detective thriller, Traveler, ranked in the Top
Ten in the 2014 Ben Franklin Independent Publishing awards, and has a 4.9
review average on Amazon. The second volume of The Traveler Chronicles
Prisoner, has just been released.
Trav
Becker’s saga concludes in the final volume of the trilogy, Hunter, due in
2017. A popular radio personality in his native Iowa, Dennis’s adventures
as a DJ were covered by newspapers from Anchorage to Los Angeles. He has
also worked on the stage, TV, and independent film.
Dennis’s
writing has appeared in the anthology Sadistic Shorts, magazines including Grift,
and Romance and Beyond, as well as his own blog at denniswgreen.com. By
day, he is the general manager of Iowa’s only jazz radio station, KCCKFM. And
if it’s 5:30 am, you can probably find him in the pool, working out with
the Milky Way Masters swim club.
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