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"Solid Repairman Jack tale"

Repairman Jack is trying to find a way to be a citizen again ever since he found out Gia was pregnant with his child. Since the government does not know he exists, they cannot be legally be married. Jack ponders a way to live up to his reputation as the "fix-it" man, his brother calls. He tells Jack that their father was in a car accident in the Everglades and is in Novaton Community Hospital.

When Jack flies down to Novaton he does not realize he is going to be in another battle for his life. Hidden in the Everglades are two sinkholes that at the equinoxes give off an otherworldly light. The light mutates humans and animals and all other living creatures. Semelie, the leader of the inhabitants with the power to control the twisted life of the sinkholes, is responsible for the accident of Jack's father. Still she cannot get at Jack because a neighbor woman with much power is able to hold the forces of darkness at bay for the moment. When she is overcome, Jack and two surprising allies fight back knowing it could mean their deaths.

Fate has something very big in store for Repairman Jack and the author slowly, novel by novel, reveals parts of the plan in which the Ally (Jack's side) battles the Otherness. Readers learn more about Jack's relationship with his father and why the Other has let him live. This is a very enthralling and mesmerizing tale because it is very possible that the dark side will win and the protagonist knows it.

Harriet Klausner

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted October 13, 2003

SUMMARY

Another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve.

Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. In the hospital he meets Anya, one of his father's neighbors. She's a weird old duck who seems to know an awful lot about his father, and even a lot about Jack.

Jack's arrival does not go unnoticed. A young woman named Semelee, who has strange talents and lives in an isolated area of the Everglades with a group of misshapen men, feels his presence. She senses that he's "special," like her.

Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents-killed by birds, spiders, and snakes-during the past year? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about-? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades . . . lights from another place, another reality.

If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, secrets he must uncover.Secrets . . . Jack has plenty of his own, and along the way he learns that even his father has secrets.

 

Gateways
(Repairman Jack: Book 7)
by F. Paul Wilson

Forge
November 1, 2003
Available: November 1, 2003
ISBN #0765306905
EAN #9780765306906
368 pages
Hardcover
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Other Books by
F. Paul Wilson

By the Sword
Jack: Secret Histories
Bloodline
Harbingers
Infernal
Crisscross
Midnight Mass
Artifact
Sims
The Haunted Air
Hosts
All the Rage
Conspiracies
Legacies
The Tomb


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