# Certainty - Hardcover

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by **John Twelve Hawks** (Author)

**John Twelve Hawks, bestselling author of _The Traveler_, returns with a masterful journey through the near future of Artificial Intelligence, in which a wise, orphaned ten-year-old girl goes on the run with only her trusty "Interactive Toy" to guide her toward New York City, where a dark landscape, and perhaps a hidden hero, await her.**

_Men's Health_ Most Anticipated Sci-Fi - BookBub Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of Spring - "Engaging, thought-provoking, and terrifying.... \[_Certainty_\] will appeal to fans of George Orwell and Michael Crichton."--_Library Journal -_ "Magnificent."--_Booklist_

As long as she can remember, ten-year-old Kate has felt like someone was watching her. She has been orphaned since the pandemic, her foster parents find her eccentric and off-putting, and her legal guardian is nowhere to be seen. Now, an algorithm has predicted the very worst--​within thirty days, Kate will either be killed, or become a killer. When two police officers arrive at her home in Maine intending to implant her with a tracking device, Kate is urged by her trusted AI Interactive Toy (a talking stuffed seal named Zeno) to make an immediate escape. Confused and looking for answers, Kate sets a course for New York City and begins an Orwellian journey into the unknown.

Gripping, intricately plotted, and delightfully imaginative, _Certainty_ is a profound and eerily prescient novel about the ever-blurring line between man and machine. Amid the murder investigation of a gifted AI robot-maker, a missing-person being tracked down in the darkest corners of virtual reality, and Kate's harrowing journey to New York, John Twelve Hawks's novel explores the spectacular humanity to be found in a world where humans are themselves endangered.

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 368

**Dimensions:** 0.69 x 9.45 x 6.51 IN

**Publication Date:** April 28, 2026

## Details

- **Price:** 42.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Books, Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Technological, Thrillers

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