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When Jack learns his father is in a coma, he flies to Florida and is immersed in a whirlwind of conspiracy surrounding the accident that put his dad in a coma.Another Repairman Jack success story. I really love this character. This isn't my favorite book in the series. Like the other books in the series, it flows smooth and fast and really keeps the reader interested throughout. You don't learn so much about Jack in this book; however, you do learn a lot about his father.The one thing that I fou...
I liked this book so much that I re-read it as soon as I finished it. We finally meet Jack's father in this one, and he's awesome! It turns out Jack is more like his dad than he ever would have thought.
Jack's father is in a coma, the victim of a hit and run accident in Florida, and Jack goes down to investigate. He meets his father's neighbor, Anya, who tells Jack there is more to his father than he knows, which proves to be true. Meanwhile some mutants in the Everglades, both human and non-human, become involved in Jack's continuing battle against the dark.
Jack has learned that his father is in a coma. When Jack arrives at the hospital, he meets Anya who is one of his father's neighbors. She is an unusual woman in that she seems to know a lot about Jack's father and Jack himself. Meanwhile, a young lady Semelee has a vision of Jack coming. She has strange talents besides living with an assortment of strange looking men in the Everglades that depend on her. Semelee knows that Jack is "special" like her. There is a ban on watering their lawns, but A...
Repairman Jack answers a call to help his father, who lives in a retirement home that borders upon the Southern Swamplands of the Everglades. He is comatose after an inexplicable accident that happened on a deserted backroad in the swampy marshland that is now in the grip of an insatiable drought! It turns out there is an evil conspiracy afoot with regards to the sinister corporation that runs the retirement home and a clan of murderous hicks that inhabit a forgotten bayou in the swampy backwate...
A middle novel in the multi-volume run-up to the apocalypse sees Repairman Jack reunite with his father at a retirement complex in Florida where residents keep getting killed by suddenly vicious Everglades animals. As with every Jack novel, Wilson could use an editor to turn this from good but overlong pulp to great, more concise pulp. Wilson does know how to stage an action scene, and the books are addictive popcorn fare. Jack remains an appealing quasi-Everyman pulp hero, more Avenger than Doc...
All of the Repairman Jack series books are fantastic. As soon as you finish one book, you'll want to start the next. While each is a standalone story in the RJ "universe", they follow a story arc and should therefore be read in order. The 1982 movie The Keep is based on the book of the same name, and is set in the RJ universe. The Keep is not a Repairman Jack story, but introduces characters that will be important in the RJ series. The Keep is the first novel in a series parallel to the Repairma...
This is my first Repairman Jack and it's unlikely there will be a second as this was slow and too gory for my tastes. 2 of 10 stars
Some of my friends who see this on my "update" will realize that I started this last night after I finished the "Repairman Jack" book that preceded it. The Haunted Air. That one I gave 5 stars...this one gets 4. I'll say why a little later, but suffice it to say that it's still and excellent book and I've already gone to my shelves and pulled the next volume in the series down. They've been waiting there to be read a long time and I've become involved of late. The books seem to me to start out p...
4.5 Stars The Repairman Jack series continues to be one of my favorite guilty pleasures. Wilson has created a hero in Jack that is simply awesome. The series is mostly action and thriller with a tiny albeit major supernatural line at it's heart. Gateways is a fun edition to the series as we get some well needed father and son bonding. The Everglades make for an awesome setting for Jack and his Dad. Gateways leans heavier on the supernatural side than most of the other books. The Otherness is fro...
Ah, Repairman Jack! While this series has had some ups and downs, the ups outweigh the downs by far, and Gateways is a very good installment in the series. Wilson's easy prose and interesting characters really make this series; that plus episodes of intense action and the supernatural.Jack is finishing up a repair job in NYC when he gets a call from his brother that his father, who recently moved to Florida, has been in an accident and in a coma. Guiltily, Jack heads down to Miami and the evergl...
There is one nit-picky detail that's been bugging me in the last few books. Jack is wanting to become a citizen before his kid is born. Fine. But he needs a social security number to do so. He claims he doesn't have one, but wouldn't his parents have gotten him one? I had my soc card when I was ten. He didn't drop out of society until he was in college or thereabouts. He's also concerned that the IRS will come after him for not paying taxes, but he's never had a 'legal' job or if he has, it hasn...
This installment gives us a lot more in the war between The Ally and The Otherness that Jack has become involved in. Another mysterious old lady with a dog makes an appearance as in "Hosts" and "The Haunted Air" but this time she's a main character and Jack finally gets to ask some questions. It's also confirmed for anagram fans that Sal Roma is Rasalom of Wilson's parallel "Adversary" series. We get to learn a lot about Jack's father (as he learns a lot about Jack!) and we get a glimpse of his
Another great Repairman Jack novel. Not only do we have a decent story, but we find out just a little more about Jack and the Otherness. And we even get a guest appearance by Rasalom!
Jack is asked by his brother to check on his father, living in Florida and the victim of a hit-and-run driver. What follows is weird: a clan of folks living in the Everglades, one of whom has strange powers, older people in a retirement community meeting premature deaths, and Jack's strained relationship with his dad. Good story and action.
Everyone needs their very own Repairman Jack to help clean up those messy situations.
“Gateways: A Repairman Jack Novel (#7),” by F. Paul Wilson “Gateways” is the 7th book in this excellent series, first recommended to me by Pete Lefevre. Just in case you don’t know him, Repairman Jack is not a handyman; he is a fixer. When you have a problem you can’t solve (being blackmailed, a missing person, etc.) that’s of a nature where involving the authorities is not your best option, Jack is your man. Not easy to locate but always resourceful and trustworthy, Jack gets the job done. Jack...
Loved this installment. Jack is taken closer to the Otherness, and the identity of The One. He is introduced to some backwater mutants, people that lived close enough to a Nexus point to cause mutations, while looking in to his father's near fatal car crash. He uncovers some strange things going on at the old folks community where his dad has moved.I liked that this tale told a self defined story that peppered in enough of the mythos F. P. Wilson has created, that it had a clearly defined end bu...
Darn GoodRepairman Jack is every man’s James Bond. In Gateways Jack is out of his element, the big city, and cast down to the Florida Everglades. Usually, when a storyline changes drastically, there’s a drop off in story quality, not so in Gateways.Book seven is different, and it’s good, we get an insight to Jack and his relationship with his father.The story is well told and character details perfect.Jack is one of the best good bad guys in print.