The Book of Dan Tarrant (5) (The Tarrant Chronicles)

Vila is alone and amnesiac. Why have his friends turned against him? Blake investigates a mining facility, unaware that his sworn enemy is close by.

These stories are set during Series 2. A mission to steal data from the planet Mogul goes badly wrong when Cally and Avon are outflanked and outgunned. And then they are teleported to safety - to an alien spaceship stolen from The System, which is crewed by Gilden Trent and his small team of rebels. When mercenary Del Grant alerts the Liberator crew to the existence of a new Federation super-weapon, Avon leads an epic battle to avert catastrophe Cally is alone with Travis, Blake's mortal enemy.

As they delve into the past, a long-hidden secret that links them both is revealed. These stories are set during series three. The Liberator crew are recovering from a Galactic War and searching for their lost members Blake and Jenna. But it's a search that leads them into terrible danger Spy , by Simon Guerrier.

Cally and Vila are undercover on the Federation-controlled world Cortol Four. The Old Ones ruled the world for eighty years at the dawn of humanity, but the Five defeated them, and threw them into Hell, causing the demons to await their return for millennia. Two gates were built in between Earth and Hell to keep the Old Ones out - these are the focus of the series and consist of Raven's Gate, and the Nazca Desert, which is the second gate.

Although it may seem like the characters are very clear-cut, some are neutral for example Paul Adams and the Incas. Even the Old Ones themselves can appear decent and friendly - this is their main weapon such as how Audrey Cheng uses her charisma to influence Scarlett when in human form. It is initially unknown who is behind the power of the Five, but eventually it is revealed to be the Librarian: The world in which the Librarian lives is strangely dead, with no colour, and is revealed to be a place the Five can use to see each other in dreams when they sleep.

Eventually, in the final book, they leave for the Dreamworld forever, hinting that the Dreamworld is actually Heaven. Matt is the first of the Five and the leader of the Five, and is the main protagonist in the first two novels Raven's Gate and Evil Star. He did reappear in the third novel Nightrise but only very briefly when Scott and Jamie Tyler appeared in the Nazca Desert, the place where Matt and Pedro were staying in Professor Chamber's hacienda.

Matt is not the main protagonist in book four as that is left to Scarlett Adams who is the fifth of the Five but he makes a bigger appearance than he did in Nightrise. Matt's powers are telekinesis , as well as clairvoyance ; his powers are stronger when he is with another of the five but it has also proven to be unstoppable with just extreme will. When he activates his power he can smell burnt toast, as this is what he could smell the day his parents died.

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This is first shown when he tries to steal from a warehouse in Ipswich and senses the security guard. He always blames himself for not warning his parents the accident which would occur for he knew his parents would not believe him. He regretted not doing damage to the car such as pouring paint over it or slashing a car tire to prevent them from going out in the car.

Matt and Lohan land in Brazil after the Hong Kong tsumani and, due to the fact that they need money, Lohan sells Matt on the slave market, takes the money and then saves Matt. Having read his life book in the dreamworld library, Matt knows what he has to do and tells Lohan that they need to head for Antarctica where the Old Ones hold a base called Oblivion.

After Scott's betrayal, he decides to meet him himself along with Richard and they are captured and tortured by the Old Ones. However, knowing what needs to be done, Richard kills Matt who is then replaced by his old self from the past. When Scott also dies, Flint also arrives from the past and the Five successfully defeat the Old Ones once again. Matt and Scott are later buried side by side in Oblivion by Richard and the remaining Five. Matt is described as being muscular but slim and very good looking.

It describes Matt in the book as having the look of a male model or a footballer or like many both. He has dark hair that is for most of the books cut short. His eyes are often described as being an intense, vivid blue in colour. His past incarnation is also called Matt as he preferred the name better. Matt can communicate with other four in a dream world. The dream world is on a beach in neither day nor night. Pedro is the second of the Five and is first introduced in the second book, Evil Star.

Pedro lived as a beggar in Lima, Peru. Pedro began life in a small village in the Canta province. A group of survivors travelled with Pedro to Lima. Pedro eventually ended up in the care of a man named Sebastian with many other children. He lived there performing tricks to people passing by and robbing rich tourists.

However, he then met Matthew Freeman and travelled with him. Pedro's power is healing. He could heal people by being around them. He discovered that during the stay with his carer Sebastian in Ciudad del Veneno , known as Poison Town in English, none of the people around him got sick due to his healing abilities, and when Matt slept at the house where Pedro lived he noticed his scars from a previous fight had vanished. He is described as being extremely skinny with long dark brown hair and brown eyes.

His past incarnation is named Inti. Pedro is 14 years old in Evil Star and Nightrise , but is then 15 in Necropolis. He had tried to heal Scott after Susan Mortlake tortured him by trying to control him but could not as the scars of the wound were too deep. By the time of Necropolis , he had learned enough of the English language to be able to communicate with the other four gatekeepers.

Jamie and Scott Tyler, twins, are two of the Five Jamie being the third and Scott being the fourth and are the main protagonists in the third book in the Power of Five series Nightrise. At the beginning of the novel, Jamie and Scott are working in a dingy theatre in Reno, Nevada , USA, under the whim of their "Uncle Don" who is not really their uncle, but Jamie and Scott are forced to call him that.

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After a performance Scott is kidnapped and both physically and mentally tortured by the sinister Nightrise Corporation at a juvenile prison called Silent Creek. Jamie is rescued by Alicia McGuire and creates a plan to save Scott. Along the way he is catapulted into the past and witnesses the first battle against the Old Ones. Sapling, Jamie's former self, was killed by the Old Ones, hence he was 'replaced' by Jamie. At the end of the novel Jamie and Scott are united with Matt and Pedro. Jamie and Scott's power is telepathy and they have the power to control other people and make them abide by the instructions given by the twins, as well as being able to read each other's thoughts automatically.

Jamie has shown in Nightrise that he doesn't like using his powers.

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The twins are described as being very skinny to the point of being malnourished with long black hair they are Native American and dark eyes. Both of them have cut their hair by the time they are reunited. Their past incarnations are Sapling Jamie and Flint Scott. Matt had stated that Scott's past incarnation name, Flint, suited him for Scott had a hard look around him and a type of cruelty.

He was supposedly angry when Matt split him and Jamie apart for the twins had never been so far apart. Matt stated that he thought Scott could not be trusted yet. Jamie and Scott are both fourteen years old in Nightrise , but are fifteen in Necropolis. In Necropolis , it shows that Jamie is now more in charge of the two, as Scott is very withdrawn and quiet. Scott also shuts down when in stress. The reason was that he was thoroughly programmed while held captive by the Nightrise agents in Nevada, USA.

Nightrise stated at the start of Necropolis that it was possible to turn Scott against his friends. Scott goes traitor in the final book and as soon as they arrive in Italy he puts Pedro in a cell and breaks his finger. So Scott joins the enemy. He is given "luxury" in the fortress of Oblivion which seems luxurious but has a habit of turning to maggot-ridden meat and freezing rooms in seconds.

It seems to be connected to whenever he is thinking of grim things. So he decides to contact Jamie. He summons Matt to the fortress under pretense of repentance, but actually betrays Matt. Scott then suddenly redeems himself when he hears Matt being tortured and he opens the locked doors, getting Jamie, Holly, and Pedro inside Oblivion. Scarlett is the fifth of the Five and is the main protagonist in the fourth book Necropolis.

She had a close friend named Aidan In the books it never claimed to be her boyfriend. Scarlett is English, and was adopted in New York, British from an orphanage there. She lives in Dulwich. Her adopted parents are Vannessa, who ran a holiday company that put together packages in China and Far East and Paul Adams, who specialised in international business law.

Her mother is described as tall, blonde and elegant while her father is described as having the looks of a lawyer with greying hair, a round face and glasses. She bears a strong resemblance, and is described by some, as Lin Mo, the Chinese goddess of the sea. Scarlett's father Paul works for the Nightrise Corporation, at the end of Nightrise she leaves on a flight to Hong Kong.

Scarlett's power is controlling the weather. Scarlett's power was at first thought to be predicting the weather but is proven that she could also control it when she summons a dragon typhoon to escape after she gets captured. This is also noted in Nightrise as Scar summons a rainstorm to mask Inti's arrival. She is also said to have a winning smile, that has gotten her out of trouble on many occasions. Matt also claims that she is very good-looking and kisses her in Oblivion.

While her parents are out working, Scarlett is taken care of by a Scottish woman, Mrs Christina Murdoch. She is short, dark-haired and seemed to have no sense of humour at all.

Scarlett and Mrs Murdoch had agreed silently that they were never going to be friends although they got on well enough. Scarlett is known to act before she thinks, like when she pushed a teacher who couldn't swim fully clothed into the school's swimming pool. Scarlett is shown as brave throughout Necropolis. At the end of Necropolis, Scarlett is shot in the head by a Nightrise agent.

She is then paired with Richard Cole when they go through the door. She is later recovered when she reaches Egypt and then goes to Dubai with Richard and goes to Oblivion. Richard Cole is a journalist first introduced in Raven's Gate where he helps Matt Freeman out with his troubles with the heartless Jayne Deverill. At the end of the novel Richard pushes Deverill in a pool of radioactive acid when she tries to crush Matt with a windpipe.

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He agrees to go to Peru with Matt and gets separated from Matt when their taxi from the airport was ambushed by the Incas, who were actually preventing them from being captured by the police. He stays at Vilcabamba, the lost city of the Incas, and reunites with Matt who went to the Nazca Lines to find the second gate. He does not appear much in Nightrise , though he does appear briefly.

But in Necropolis , he makes a bigger appearance when he goes with Matt and Jamie to London to try to find Scarlett Adams, the last of the Five, and then goes to Hong Kong with them via Macau before they are attacked and separated. He reunites with the Five at the Tai Shan Temple. He is then paired with Scarlett when he went through the door in the Tai Shan Temple. In Oblivion , Richard and a severely-injured Scarlett arrive through the door under the pyramids in Egypt. However, due to the ten years that had passed because of the door's malfunction, the country is now engulfed in a civil war between the military government dominated by the Old Ones and a group of freedom fighters led and funded by the Nexus.

The Gatekeepers return to the Dreamworld to live, and Richard and Holly wait for their chance to permanently live there. At university Richard studied journalism, politics and the history of geography. In Necropolis , his knowledge of historical maps helped him to decode St Joseph's diary and find out where the Gatekeeper's portals are.

The Librarian is a very mysterious character, so far having only appeared in Necropolis. He is first introduced when Matt explores the Dreamworld and in the process discovers and enters a Library. The Librarian, as his name suggests, is the master of the Library, which he calls "the Great Library.

He has a collection of the lives of all the humans on Earth, in the form of books which record "their beginnings, their marriages, their good days and their bad days, their deaths - of course. Everything they ever did. Such is his power that he may in fact be the opposite of Chaos, the King of the Old Ones.

Physically, the Librarian appears as a short, elderly man, barely five foot high with white robes, a silk red jacket, with gray hair, gray eyes and a face which looks as if it has been carved. He looks like an Arab. A beard would suit him but he is clean-shaven. At the end of the fifth and final novel, Oblivion, the victorious Gatekeepers return to the Dreamworld and all enter the Library. The Librarian appears, yet he has a woman with him this time. To all the Gatekeepers she resembles their races.

So to Jamie and Scott, she appears Native American; to Scarlett, she is Asian, to Pedro, she is Incan, and to Matt, she is his mother, as she was on the day of her death. All this suggests the Librarian is also Matt's father, and thus the father of the Five Gatekeepers. The Traveller, aka Graham Fletcher, is a protagonist in book five, Oblivion.

He came to Holly's village from the ruins of London on a house boat, which made Holly think he was a gypsy. He was said to work for government before London blew up. He had an authoritative air about him, which got him out of trouble in numerous occasions in the village. He became half-accepted as one of the villagers, thanks to his alcohol on the houseboat and his horse, which he reluctantly allowed the hungry villagers to eat. The Traveller was present when Jamie finally came out of the door in the church having left it ten years.

The Traveller protected Jamie from the Council handing him over to the evil police. But when Miss Keyland betrayed everyone and sold out the village to police, the Traveller sought out Jamie and took him out. He reluctantly bought Holly too, only saving her when he thought he could help himself. He took Holly and Jamie down to London's ruins, and then they met with the Nexus, revealing who the Traveller really was. The Traveller said his real name was Graham Fletcher and he had a brother in the Nexus, whom he hadn't seen or heard from in ten years. The Traveller then said he would take Jamie to London, to Saint Merediths, which had a door he could get to Antarctica in.

The Traveller killed Eleanor Straike in London, who was an evil policewoman who had killed all of Holly's village and also Little Moulsford village. The Traveller stayed behind in London when the others went through the door. He won the battle and saw to his surprise the police just gave up on the attack when Straike was dead. He later went back with Holly and Richard, and married Sophie from his surviving group. The Nexus is a highly secret group of powerful and influential people with some link to the supernatural world who prevent the Old Ones re-entering planet Earth.

In Nightrise , only one member of the Nexus, Natalie Johnson, appears near the end of the book. She helps Jamie and Scott Tyler escape after a near assassination of a presidential candidate in Auburn, California. There are always twelve members in the Nexus. The Nexus are not specifically named, but the members of the Nexus who are mentioned in Necropolis are:.

The Nexus presumably disbands after the final battle; as the Five leave Earth and are no longer required. This could be said for the Nexus too. They presumably go back to their normal lives. A black superintendent who appears solely in Raven's Gate, Mallory is in charge of interviewing Matthew Freeman after the police arrest him on suspicion of murder. Mallory interviews both Matthew and his partner-in-crime Kelvin, and although Kelvin claims Matthew started the whole theft and "killed" a policeman, Mallory also interviews the police officer who Kevin claimed was dead, and from him learns that Matthew, although involved, was innocent as he wanted to save the guard.

Mallory is puzzled as to why Matthew should have become a criminal, as to him Matthew seems very polite, intelligent, and moral, unlike the other thugs he usually deals with. Mallory is suspicious of Matthew's foster-mother, Jayne Deverill, from the beginning, and his suspicions about her deepen when he learns of the "suicide" of a criminal near his police center and feels Jayne Deverill was involved. He learns about Matthew's precognitive powers from his neighbour, and then learns of another death reported by Matthew. He immediately feels Matthew is in immediate danger from Jayne Deverill and visits Matthew on the farm, but Jayne Deverill is openly hostile to Mallory.

Mallory tells Jayne Deverill that she is unfit for guardianship and that he is removing Matthew from her. That is racial segregation against Jews. It does prevents terror attacks and has proved efficient. Come on its a travel programme. It was never going to be good at history. As far as good with money goes he should not say it. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Posted on November 30, 12 Comments.

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