The Fire Seekers (The Babel Trilogy) - Hardcover

Farr, Richard

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9781477847732: The Fire Seekers (The Babel Trilogy)

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ISBN 10: 1477847731 ISBN 13: 9781477847732

Publisher: Skyscape, 2014

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The time of our immortality is at hand.

An undeciphered language in Crete. A rash of mysterious disappearances, from Bolivia to Japan. An ancient warning at the ruins of Babel. And a new spiritual leader, who claims that human history as we understand it is about to come to an end.

Seventeen-year-old Daniel Calder’s world falls apart when a freak accident brings personal tragedy—and he discovers there’s a link between the accident and a wildly successful new cult, the Seraphim. Catapulted into a violent struggle for humanity’s past and future, he’s not even sure who the enemy is, or if he’s battling a phantom that doesn’t exist. But as Daniel puts his life on the line, he is forced to conclude that our very survival as a species will depend on who, and what, we choose to believe.

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About the Author:

Richard Farr is the author of the award-winning Emperors of the Ice: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in the Antarctic, 1910–13. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children, where he is currently working on the sequel to The Fire Seekers. Find him online at www.richardfarr.net.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up—Daniel Calder lives an exceptional life. With an architect father and a computer genius mother, he travels the world in search of new Phaistos disc (round pieces of fired clay from ancient Greece) clues and adventures. But when his mother dies in a strange climbing accident, people across the globe disappear in the name of a new religion, and his father goes missing after a Phaistos disc translation is discovered to be too similar to the new religion's tenets, Daniel and his friends must determine just what has happened and rescue not only his father but all of humanity as well. This mystery novel places readers in a grounded realistic fiction at the beginning, and then takes an unexpected turn into the science fiction genre in the latter half, with the former portion being the more cohesive. Well-developed characters lead readers on a journey through the past toward a confusing and drawn out conclusion, which will leave them questioning the trip. Thorough integration of historical information into the narrative allows teens to learn about Phaistos discs and past civilizations, while keeping them intrigued. Strong religious overtones and an unforeseen ending may offend some ChristianJudeo readers. The first of a trilogy, The Fire Seekers has an unsteady start.—Elizabeth Speer, Cisco College, TX

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