Nightworld is (sort-of) the sixteenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. The days are getting shorter, the stars are changing and all hope is lost… Or is it? Having thought that I had finished this series at book 15, it seemed a little daunting to start book 16, but I’ve made it my mission to finish [...]
The Dark at The End is the fifteenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. The Lady is a beacon signalling that sentient life exists on this planet. If she dies The Ally will turn its attention to other worlds and other dimensions, leaving the The Otherness to turn the planet into something resembling Hell. Twice The Adversary [...]
Fatal Error is the fourteenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. The Septimus Order, the Dormentalists and the Kickers all combine to try and bring down the internet, hoping the resulting chaos will further their cause of killing The Lady and letting The Otherness take over our reality. As with the previous episode, we are just [...]
Ground Zero is the thirteenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack meets up with an old school friend who has become fixated by the secret history of the world and more specifically, how it links to the 9/11 conspiracy theories… This story adds a bit more flesh to Jack’s life before he became a fix-it [...]
By the Sword is the twelfth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack is hired to find a battered old Japanese sword. Unfortunately, there are some other people looking for it, including a group of Yakuza, a group of self-mutilating Japanese monks and people from a US religious cult. This is not going to be easy… We are [...]
Bloodline is the eleventh book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. After taking a break from doing fix-its, Jack takes on a simple case for Christy Pickering. She is looking for dirt on her daughter’s boyfriend, who is twice her daughters age. Not Jack’s normal work, but it sounds simple enough, until the first guy Christy [...]
If you are interested in finding out more about Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control, Porus Homi Havewala‘s new book called Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control: Managing Data Center Chaos, will be available in printed and electronic formats in September 2012. If you are super-keen, it’s available for pre-order now. Cheers Tim…
Michael McLaughlin‘s blog has a post about a free MS SQL Server book (Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2012) available here. If you are into MS SQL Server, you can’t get a better deal than that. Remember, you can still get hold of a free copy of Tom Kyte‘s book (Expert Oracle Database Architecture, 2nd Edition) from Red [...]
Harbingers is the tenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. The last of Jack’s relatives are gone. Are his girlfriend (Gia), her daughter (Vicky) and Jack’s unborn child the next in line? Is there anything Jack can do to protect them? This book focuses more on Jack’s relationship to “The Otherness” and “The Ally”. We [...]
Infernal is the ninth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Another family tragedy has the effect of reuniting Jack with his brother Tom, the judge. It turns out Tom is not as squeaky clean has he appears and needs Jack’s help for something less than legal. As you can probably guess by now, it all turns [...]