1984 and all that

As mentioned in the last post, I have been reading "the new Da Vinci code" or as it also says on the cover The Traveller by John Twelve Hawks. It is an SF story in as much as the "travellers" can travel to other realities. They are opposed by "the brethren", but protected by "harlequins" who were once the Templar knights. The brethren have all the tools of technology surveillance and that is the key - the book is all about paranoia and the real message is that our lives are being controlled by those faceless people behind the cameras. Its an old theme but there is really no doubt that John Twelve hawks does not like to be observed. Nothing else really matters when describing this book.