Cold City (Repairman Jack)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 076536803X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 496 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Marc Goldfinger said Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson. Tales of Repairman Jack by F. Paul Wilson: A ReviewBy Marc D. Goldfinger[] F. Paul Wilson is the creator of Repairman Jack published by Tor Books, New York, NY 10010 and Isher Books, distributed by the Gauntlet Press, among others.Repairman Jack is one of the most excitin. about Repairman Jack a couple of months ago and liked them, so thought I'd try more of this Brenda4Lace I read a book of short stories about Repairman Jack a couple of months ago and liked them, so thought I'd try more of this character. I wasn't sure where to start, then saw this book, The Early Years #1 and decided to start there - kind of a mistake.Some parts were better. Not a page turner Plot ok but it was not a page turner. I plugged away but was rather disappointed in the book as I have read others by this author and really like them.
--David Pitt . A breath of fresh air for a long-running crime-fiction franchise. Its prose is refreshingly nimble, not lumbered by the extensive backstory that weighs down other books in the series, and Jack himself—a younger, less experienced version of the familiar character—is likable and even kind of goofy. It goes without saying that rabid Jack fans will snap this new book up, but it can also be safely recommended to readers who have grown tired of the increasingly dark and impenetrable Jack novels. From Booklist Readers who might be tempted to cry “enough already with Repairman Jack!”—those for whom 15 novels are plenty, not to mention three Teen Jack books
Paul Wilson's self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to.We join Jack a few months after his arrival in New York City. Soon he'll meet Julio and the Mikulski brothers. Cold City is the first of three Repairman Jack prequels, revealing the past of one of the most popular characters in contemporary dark fantasy: F. He doesn't own a gun yet, though he's already connected with Abe. He runs afoul of some Dominicans, winds up at the East Side Marriott the night Meir Kahane is shot, gets on the bad side of some Arabs, starts a hot affair, and disrupts the smuggling of preteen sex slaves. And that's just Book One.
PAUL WILSON, the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels, lives in Wall, New Jersey. F. In 2008, he won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.