Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #178628 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 448 pages

Synopsis
Following a hit-and-run" accident that severely injures his father, a resident of Gateways, a senior community on the edge of the Everglades, Jack joins forces with his father's neighbor, Anya Mundy, to stop Semelee, a mysterious young woman who uses her powers to control creatures of the Everglades to sacrifice inhabitants of Gateways every three

Customer Reviews

A real treat for Repairman jack fans
yes, this is the book for connoiseurs of Jack, drawing as it does form other stories by F Paul Wilson, in particular The Barrens and even Nightworld itself. It starts with news that Jack's father has been the victim of a hit and run accident in Florida, and our anti-hero must leave New York and travel down to visit him. Wilson provides his usual tense atention-grabbing scene at the start of the novel, as Jack's false identity and smuggling abilities are put to the test as he is forced to take a plane in the high-security aftermath of 9/11. Now when even Repairman Jack is afraid of being highjacked in mid-air, something has clearly gone wrong in America...

Anyway, on arrival in Florida it becomes clear that this was no random accident, and that Jack's father has quite a few secrets of his own. Without giving too much away, there are some surprise appearances along the way, with some of the cast of Nightworld sneaking out for a look at our world...I'm talking about you and your kin, Lobster-Wasp, as well as the one whose name we dare not speak (or borrow). These events are clearly going to require a slight re-writing of Nightworld by Wilson, as the current text was written before these recent Jack novels and does not contain any reference to Jack having experienced the events of Gateways...however, I'm sure FPW will tie up the loose ends perfectly in what is the greatest saga in modern fiction.