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Title: Gateways by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0-7653-0690-5 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: We Love Repairman Jack!
Comment: If you have been reading the Repairman Jack novels, you don't need to read any further...in fact, you are probably already putting this one on hold for yourself or checking it out (if it's on the shelf). If you are new to the series or haven't heard of it yet, this is a good one. Jack's story started in The Tomb way back in 1984. At one point it seemed to have ended (with the world as we know it) in Nightworld in 1992/1993. But Wilson (thankfully!) has decided to go back and fill in the missing years of Jack's life between The Tomb and the beginning of the Nightworld trilogy. This is (I believe) the sixth of those fill in the blank novels. Jack is fix-it man. If someone is blackmailing you, you call Jack to...take the pressure off. He is an "invisible" man. He has no social security number. He looks like your average Joe. But he's an amazing fighter and arms expert. Since The Tomb, though, he has been running in to supernatural problems. It helps to read the books in order, but it's not 100% necessary. In this installment, Jack leaves his beloved New York city (and his near complete anonymity therein) to fly to Florida to check on his Dad who has had a run in with--well, I won't spoil anything, but I will say it is connected to Jack's main adversary "The Otherness" Check out the series if you haven't. Stephen King is the president of the Repairman Jack fan club. If you read one, you'll be a member too!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not The Maytag Repairman!
Comment: Repairman Jack is not an appliance repairman as his father has been led to believe. He fixes things that no one else can fix--things that might involve--well--going outside the law. Things that might involve going up against ultimate Evil. In this book, ultimate Evil resides in a sinkhole in the Florida Everglades, right behind the retirement village where his father was living just prior to his near-fatal accident. And of course, Repairman Jack is quickly drawn into the scene and its ever-widening net of sinister complications.
Jack is one of the most intriguing characters in current literature and author F. Paul Wilson's signature character. A man with no legal identity, no social security number, he operates in a shadow-land outside the law, yet always fighting for justice. And while Jack is very good at his peculiar line of work, he also yearns for a normal life, with a normal family.
So, will Evil be defeated? Will Jack figure out how to emerge from the shadows and marry his long-time girlfriend? Will he even survive? Will existence as we know it survive? You will just have to read the book to find out. Author Wilson is a great story-teller who will keep you turning the pages. I recommend this one. Reviewed by Louis N. Gruber.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Repairman Jack Since The Tomb?
Comment: I once read a series of six books by Wilson, called the Adversary Series. It started out with The Keep and ended with an out of print, rare book called Nightworld. Nightworld was an extraordinary book wherein the evil, reborn Rasalom, after a titanic seemingly unwinable battle and against all odds, was vanquished for once and for all, or was he?
With Gateways, it seems our illustrious author is leading us back to another cataclysmic clash with this maleficent character, a reprise of sorts or maybe even a reissue of Nightworld, in which Repairman Jack played a significant part. That would explain why Jack seems to have no recollection of major events that happened in a novel written ten years ago. I suppose we will have to wait and see what Wilson has in mind, so let's get to the story at hand.
Background on Repairman Jack
This is the seventh book involving, the very popular fictional character, Repairman Jack, a character that has become one of the most beloved literary creations since James Bond.
Repairman Jack is an unobtrusive looking guy who has slipped in under the government radar. He doesn't exist as far as the government knows. He has no social security number, no credit cards, pays no taxes, pays cash for everything always keeps a low profile.
Jack "The Equalizer". If you remember the TV show of that name from several years ago, that is what Jack does. No he's not "The Equalizer" but if you've been wronged and you've got the money, Jacks available and Jack can be deadly. He can be your worst nightmare but as nightmares go everything is relative and Jack takes second fiddle in this book as he fights for his and his father's life
Plot
Jack's seventy year old father, was involved in a hit and run accident and is comatose in the hospital. Jack flies down to be with him and as well as to nose around to see if he can find out what happened.
Well the more he finds out, the stranger things get, as Jack seems to have gotten himself involved in yet another supernatural incident involving a young woman who can control animals and older woman with somewhat magical powers.
When Jack finally gets to his fathers hospital room he runs into his father's neighbor, the enigmatic Anya, a mysterious seventy-something lady of surprises. She insists that Jack stay in his dad's house so they in effect are neighbors as well. While there Jack discovers that Anya is indeed more than meets the eye.
As Jack tries to investigate, his fathers accident many things don't add up, such as the anonymous call about the accident preceding the accident by twenty minutes. He also discovers there have been three unnatural deaths among Gateways residents about three months apart and Jacks dad may fit that pattern.
Eventually Jack runs into a white haired girl named Semelee, the defacto leader of a strange group of misshapen young adults called the Clan, that live in the Everglades. Semelee seems to have some advanced knowledge of Jack and also seems to be smitten with Jack, much to the chagrin of Luke, Semelee's wannabe boyfriend.
The next day Jack runs into a gardener named Carl who has a lazy eye and apparently no left arm. He later discovers that Carl used to be a member of the deformed group and gets him to lead Jack to the clan's secret lagoon.
After a couple days in Florida, with the ostensible help of Anya, Jack's father comes out of the coma and that's when things get really interesting.
Conclusion
This is a fun read. A fast moving story of about 370 pages, it may be the most interesting of the Repairman Jack novels since he debuted with the Tomb. The writing is fluid and compelling and we finally get to meet Tom, Repairman Jack's father who is quite a guy himself. You remember him, he's the guy in previous novels that thought Jack repaired appliances.
And don't go away folks. The way the book ends is definitely setting up at least one sequel and when it comes to Repairman Jack, that's good news!
Final rating 4.6 stars
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Title: The Haunted Air by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0312878680 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 18 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Fifth Harmonic by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 1571743863 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Sims by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0765305518 Publisher: Forge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Hosts by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 081256166X Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 18 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: All The Rage by F. Paul Wilson ISBN: 0812566548 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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