The Traveler

Written by David L. Golemon

Narrated by Richard Poe

The Event Group is faced with an impossible mission in the latest heart-pounding hit from The New York Times bestselling author of Carpathian. 267,000 BCE. The continent was its own world, untouched by the planet-wide catastrophe that ended the reign of the dinosaurs over sixty-five million years before. A traveler arrives in the jungles of this ancient world who will fight to survive carnivorous creatures in a land never meant for human kind. In another time and in a land far distant, men and women struggle to recover from the loss of so many of their own in a battle. Inside of this Group, Colonel Jack Collins has summoned the best of the best from the most secretive organization in the United States government, The Event Group, to help him in his quest. The new mission is to recover one of their own: to bring home a lost soldier from a world that existed in the distant past. To accomplish the impossible, Department 5656, the Event Group, will have to travel to a place and time far removed from their own world - almost 300,000 years in the past. The trail to find the technology to accomplish time travel will be ripe with treachery and murder as the Group fights to bring home their friend, Captain Carl Everett, a man that was lost in a battle to save the world. This will be a fight that if lost, will change the very history of the planet and thus our present.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 5, 2016
• ISBN: 9781501919350

David L. Golemon

David L. Golemon is the author of the Event Group Thrillers, including Event, Ancients, Leviathan and Primeval. Legend, the second book in the series, was nominated for a RITA award for paranormal fiction. Golemon learned an early love of reading from his father, who told him that the written word, unlike other forms, allows readers to use their own minds, the greatest special effects machines of all—an idea Golemon still believes. The only thing he loves more than writing is research, especially historical research, and he sees the subtext of his Event novels as being that understanding history allows us to create a better future. Golemon grew up in Chino, California, and now makes his home in New York.

Reviews for The Traveler

[conanthelibr · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I listened to the downloaded audio version via my public library. I loved McLarty's reading voice(s) and his setting - East Providence, RI. As far as I can tell, the book is quite autobiographical. I actually got on Google maps to try to find some of the places he mentioned.

[alirambles · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this book but found myself wishing for more depth. The mystery of a shooting that happened 35 years before wasn't particularly compelling to me, I was more interested in the relationships, past and present, and I thought it fell short here. I never quite bought the relationship between Jono and Renee, the woman in his present life. He tells us dozens of times how wonderful she is, but when the two of them are together something is missing. Similarly, I wanted to love the closeknit group of friends who half the chapters, in flashback, are about, but there really wasn't much to hold onto. All the people getting beat up kind of blended together after a while, as did the characters. Their actions seemed like a random series of events rather than an unfolding that helps the reader feel involved with the characters. When the present finally collided with the past so we could see how it all fit together, I found myself caring much less than I wanted to. And, really, how important could those relationships have been to the guy who didn't bother coming back to his hometown except for funerals? Even when he does come back there's very little effort to spend time with these guys and not much dwelling on why not. He spends more time with the cop than either of his friends.This isn't the only way in which the thread between the flashback chapters and the present-day chapters is weak. I didn't see any signs of the current Jono in the past version--the book might as well have been about two completely separate people. Like Jono's sense of disconnect when he sees his highschool sweetheart Sandy at the bar and she's gotten old and fat, the past-tense Jono didn't strike me as anyone remotely like a guy who would eventually move to NYC and become an actor. I would have liked to read a book in which, as the past story unfolds, we begin to see the patterns that will become the present-day character we've been following. Unfortunately, that's not the book McLarty chose to write.

[readabook66 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A compelling book with a wonderfully authentic setting

[txorig_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Not as wonderful as his first, but still has that wonderful dry humor. The characters are not deep, but you can remember one of them in your childhood. Jono Riley with the volkswagen on this shoulders (big head); Billy Fontanelli who's family wanted him to have more; Cubby and Marie D'Agostino and Bobby the sad, quiet giant. The dialogue is simple "If one of you assholes give me a quarter, I won't kick your ass", but also very touching "...my nana was an extraordinary and wonderful addition to the planet. She was hopeful and positive and joyous...Even when stomach cancer started its endgame, she would sip her Irish breakfast tea and happily talk about tomorrow" A story of family, friends and growth, with a little mystery thrown in. A very nice read.