by John Brunner
First published 2014
Austin Train runs from both his followers and his enemies. The Trainites want him to lead their environmental movement into open warfare. The government wants him dead or imprisoned. Train refuses both paths and pursues his own dangerous agenda. Nickie Haflinger has lived dozens of false lives after escaping from Tarnover, the secretive government facility that trained him. He broke through their identity systems and vanished, but his former handlers still hunt him. The Traveller in Black walks through a world where chaos reigns supreme. Natural forces battle endlessly while he works alone to impose order on the madness. He carries many names but serves one purpose. Three stories of men who stand apart from the systems that would control them.
Genres: science-fiction, dystopia, adventure, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Tarnover
Period: 20th-century
672 pages · Paperback · Gateway
Content warnings: violence