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 [...]
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 [...]
Crisscross is the eighth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. I’m trying desperately not to sing “Kris Kross will make you jump, jump“. Failed. Two quick fix-it jobs get very complicated. First Jack tries to help a Nun who is being blackmailed. Then a concerned mother asks him to find her missing son who has [...]
The Haunted Air is the sixth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. It seems the world is quite literally going to Hell and Jack is one of the few people that might be able to stop it. This latest adventure sees Jack getting drawn into investigating the ritual killing of children, phony mediums and a ghost interfering [...]
Hosts is the fifth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack is reunited with his sister, just as a new virus threatens to link all human brains into a single collective hive mind, turning the human race into a docile petri dish living for the greater good of the virus. Perhaps it’s my mood, but this [...]
Conspiracies is the third book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. Jack is hired to look for a missing woman who happens to be part of a very exclusive conspiracy theory group. What’s more she went missing just before presenting her Grand Unification Theory, that supposedly explains the true root of all conspiracies through all the ages. Coincidence? I [...]
Legacies is the second book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson. This book was more like a straight detective story based around a new scientific discovery. There was no supernatural aspect to the case, which was a bit disappointing. The story itself was fine, but the supernatural thing peaks my interest that [...]