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Chargement... Gateways (2003)par F. Paul Wilson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Jack's father is in a coma, the victim of a hit and run accident in Florida, and Jack goes down to investigate. He meets his father's neighbor, Anya, who tells Jack there is more to his father than he knows, which proves to be true. Meanwhile some mutants in the Everglades, both human and non-human, become involved in Jack's continuing battle against the dark. ( ) Jack, the "repairman", who lives under the radar and attacks jobs that people need done outside of official channels, has to go down to Florida, as his father is the victim of a hit and run accident and is in a coma. The "Otherness", or evil that Jack has come up against in other books, is involved and Jack has to investigate what's going on and come up with a solution to the problem, originating in the Everglades. The examination of Jack's relationship with his father is examined and they both discover things about each other that they didn't know. Repairman Jack receives news that his father was recently in an automobile accident and is currently residing in a coma ward in a Florida Hospital. The typical New York storyline is tossed aside as Jack is thrust into a supernatural adventure that takes place in the Everglades. A group of backwoods Evergladians comes in possessions of a talisman that allows them to control the creatures of the swamp, but things go awry when they use the trinket against the wrong dude. A small-scale war breaks out when Jack brings his own brand of vengeance against the swamp people. Gateways is an important read in the overall Repairman Jack story arc as some key secrets are revealed, but the tale itself fell a bit short for me. I like NYC Repairman Jack! However, this is a must read for those digging their way through the series. I think this is my favorite RJ book so far, but Conspiracies and The Haunted Air come really close. Wilson does a great job telling another RJ tale, but adds the element of family as Jack gets to know that his father isn't the man he assumed he was. I like that Jack is out of his element here, having traveled to Florida to care for his comatose dad after a nasty hit and run accident. We also meet Jack's dad's neighbor Anya (of the beef jerky complexion and Long Island accent) and her chihuahua Oyv. I dare you not to fall in love with them. I loved this book and I already have the next standing by. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieRepairman Jack (7) The Secret History of the World Chronological Order (September Y0-2) Appartient à la série éditoriale
"In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a car accident in Florida. They've been on the outs, but this is his dad, so he heads south. 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." "Jack's arrival does not go unnoticed. A young woman named Semelee, who has strange talents and lives in an isolated area of the Everglades with a group of misshapen men, feels his presence. She senses that he's "special," like her." "Anya takes Jack back to Dad's senior community, Gateways South, which borders on the Everglades. Florida is going through an unusual drought. There's a ban on watering; everything is brown and wilting, but Anya's lawn is a deep green." "Who is Anya? Who is Semelee, and what is her connection to the recent strange deaths of Gateways residents - killed by birds, spiders, and snakes - during the past year? And what are the "lights" Jack keeps hearing about? Lights that emanate twice a year from a sinkhole deep in the Everglades ... lights from another place, another reality." "If he is to protect his father from becoming the next fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack must answer, secrets he must uncover. Secrets ... Jack has plenty of his own, and along the way he learns that even his father has some."--BOOK JACKET. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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