Description:AwardsWorld Fantasy (nominee)
Jack
Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey -
an exalting, terrifying quest for the Talisman. Only the Talisman can
save his dying mother and defeat the enemy who is out to destroy them.
But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the
breadth of the United States, but through the wondrous and menacing
Territories as well.
The Territories lie as firmly in the
imagination as Atlantis or Oz; they are as real as every reader's own
vision of that parallel world which can only be evoked in the mind's
mysterious eye. In the Territories Jack finds a world little removed