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He wants to seize their business from Jack's mother.

Accompanied by Wolf and later by his friend Richard, Jack must retrieve the Talisman before it falls into the hands of Morgan Sloat, Richard's father, who, we later learn, was Jack's father's business partner before arranging to have him Wolf is extremely likeable, kind, loyal and friendly, much like a dog, though his wolf nature shows through on occasion.Īs the story goes back and forth between the Territories and the familiar United States, or "American Territories" as Jack comes to call them, Jack escapes from one life-threatening situation after another. A sixteen-year-old Wolf, simply named Wolf, is accidentally pulled into America by Jack Sawyer and adopts Jack as his herd, serving as his companion. They serve as royal herdsmen or bodyguards, and can sometimes under stress voluntarily change to wolf form.

These are not the savage killers of tradition. Of particular importance are the Werewolves, known simply as Wolfs, who inhabit the Territories. Various people help or hinder Jack in his quest. In his world the beloved Queen Laura DeLoessian, the twinner of Jack's mother (a movie actress known as the "Queen of the B Movies") is also dying. Jack is taught how to "flip" by Speedy Parker, who may be a gunslinger named Parkus in the Territories. In rare instances (such as Jack Sawyer's), a person may die in one world but not the other, making them "single-natured" and giving them the ability to switch back and forth between the two worlds if taught how.

Twinners can also flip, but only share the body of their alternate universe's analogue. Twinners' births, deaths, and (it is intimated) other major life events are usually paralleled. Individuals in the Territories have "twinners," or parallel individuals, in our world. The premise of the novel involves the existence of a parallel world to Earth, called " the Territories", a strange fantasy world with ties (though these ties did not exist at the time of publication) to the Dark Tower series. This book charts the adventure of twelve year old Jack Sawyer who travels across the country to save his mother, who is dying from cancer, by finding a crystal called "the Talisman."