Gateways
A Repairman Jack Novel
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4.3 • 4 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Following The Haunted Air, New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can solve.
Gateways kicks off as Jack comes face to face with a harsh reality–his estranged father is lying comatose in a Florida hospital following a car crash. 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.
The book plunges deep into the heart of the Everglades, where Jack comes into contact with Semelee, a cryptic young woman with distinct talents living amongst an eerie group of misshapen men.
Here, Jack finds himself ensnared in inexplicable events of residents meeting death by venomous wildlife and mystifying lights originating from an otherworldly sinkhole. Can Jack unravel these riddles before his father becomes the next casualty?
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As in his last Repairman Jack novel, The Haunted Air (2002), Wilson deftly contrasts the self-imposed isolation of his vigilante hero with the forced exile of society's outcasts. When he learns that his estranged father is in a coma after a car accident, Jack travels to Florida, where his father has been living in a retirement community, Gateways South, which encroaches a bit further into the Everglades than the brochures would have you think. Jack soon has another run-in with what he calls "the Otherness," a Lovecraftian evil that here pervades a lagoon and the community of mutated rednecks surrounding it. Wilson is unsurpassed in depicting his characters' feelings of alienation as they attempt to comprehend the cosmic forces that have misshapen their lives. Particularly vivid is Semelee, an albino woman-child who achieves a certain degree of domination over her mostly male brethren by virtue (or lack thereof) of her sexuality. Jack's reconciliation with his father, along with the discovery that his father is also no stranger to the finer points of violence, could have been maudlin in the hands of a lesser writer, but Wilson provides just enough conflict between the two to allow their newfound love for each other to be convincing. This one will appeal to horror aficionados and to fans of Carl Hiassen and James Lee Burke.
