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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780765356321
ISBN number: 0765356325
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 448
Printing Date: September 30, 2008
Publishing house: Tor Books
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Sale Popularity Level: 19128
Studio: Tor Books
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It starts off simply enough. Jack is hired by Christy Pickering, whose 18-year-old daughter is dating sinister and shady Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy neither likes nor trusts Bethlehem and hires Jack to find out if her instincts are correct. As Jack delves into the man’s past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute, a government-funded facility researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA. Bethlehem is not who he pretends to be.
As the bodies pile up, Jack discovers another horrific piece of the puzzle of his own identity, and why he’s been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.
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I've read all the RJ novels and this one was by far my least favorite. While it shared may of the same problems as HARBINGERS (mostly a meandering supernatural plotline and little-to-no "fixin'"), this novel had the added "bonus" of just sort of...stopping.
There is no real wrapping up of the story, just sort of an intermission until it picks up in the subsequent book; while this isn't the very first time I have seen this tactic used for series-style novels, it never fails to bother the heck out of me.
It's getting harder and harder for me to care about Jack's exploits, mostly because they are getting more and more unbelievable. There is a particular part of the book that really seemed to be jumping the shark (a particular novelist of the "Jake Fixx" persuasion; deliver me from writer's in-jokes...), and all in all I wished that it had been closer to the earlier Jack books - more fixin', less supernatural-related nonsense.
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Wilson is still going strong in his latest Repairman Jack book. If you like supernatural thrillers, like the X-files, you will love Repairman Jack. Not quite as much action as some of Wilsons other books, but the story more than makes up for this. It is a very hard book to put down.
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For those new to the series, Repairman Jack doesn't officially exist. He has no social security number, no tax records, no legal identity of any kind. When people have a problem, he's available to fix it. For a price. He has also been sucked into a kind of underground war between two god-like entities. One called the Otherness would destroy the Earth as we know it and the Ally would preserve things as they are.
In this installment of the series, Jack gets a client, Christy Pickering, whose 18 year-old daughter, Dawn, has gotten involved with a man old enough to be her father. Christy believes the man is trouble and wants Jack to dig up the dirt. The case seems simple enough on the surface but before long Jack is knee deep in a government conspiracy, genetic experimentation, and even abortionist murders in Atlanta. While key elements of the story tie back to the ongoing struggle between the Ally and the Otherness, the foes Jack must deal with are strictly human with no supernatural abilities.
Bloodlines is a medium length novel at 400 pages long, and the story moves along at a solid pace from start to finish. In many of the Repairman Jack novels, the fix-it work is little more than a launching pad before the story veers into utter craziness that Jack has to deal with. This time around, the focus is squarely on one fix from beginning to end. Wilson used a similar tack in Crisscross: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack) and it definitely makes for a nice change.
The supporting cast is not a strength in this installment, but that's okay because Jack carries most of the load as usual. Christy consistently does exactly whatever Jack tells her not to and puts both herself and Jack in danger as a result. This happens over and over again. Her daughter is an airhead with an irritating valley girl dialect that "like, totally" gets on my nerves. The villain was more interesting, but doesn't provide much of a challenge for Jack. The book would have benefited from upping his danger quotient so that the reader felt more nervous about Jack's safety instead of just the women in the story.
Bloodlines is a solid Repairman Jack novel. The story is interesting and moves at a good pace. There is a reasonable amount of suspense and the struggle between the Otherness and Ally continues to move closer to its climax. If you're already a fan of the series, it's well worth picking up. If you're new to Repairman Jack, you would do better to start with The Tomb (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack) which introduced Jack to the world or The Haunted Air : Repairman Jack (Repairman Jack) (Repairman Jack), which is possibly the best of the series so far.
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Repairman Jack novels ought to be written until the year 2150. Why not? That will be the case for the James Bond thrillers, and as good as they are, they do not hold a candle to the Repairman Jack books. I opened the book, half fearing that Gia would no longer be with us. Or maybe Vicki. F. Paul Wilson knows how to ratchet up the tension, and leave you restlessly waiting for the subsequent book to be published.
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Jack seems to be doing stuff "just because"--lacks some of the sparkle of earlier novels.
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