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Harbingers: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack) | 
 enlarge | Author: F. Paul Wilson
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 130272
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0765351390
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780765351395
ASIN: 0765351390
Publication Date: August 28, 2007
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Condition: p - spine creases and minor edge wear
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It starts off so simply: Jack, still feeling down after the tragic events of Infernal, is hanging in Julio’s when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it’s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he’ll put the word out on the street. This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.
As has become evident in the series, Jack has been singled out, unwillingly, as the champion of one of the two supernatural forces contending for control of all human life on Earth. Neither of these forces are good or evil, just dangerous and amoral. They value and notice individual humans about as much as we do mosquitoes. Jack is desperate . . . and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. That’s when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.
A hang-onto-your-hat-and-heart thriller of triumph and tragedy that barrels along at F. Paul Wilson’s trademark breakneck pace.
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 Another Great Repaiman Jack Novel June 28, 2008
What can I say? Like Stephen King, I am hooked on Repairman Jack. These novels read like a weird combination of X-Files and the Rockford Files. Jack always get drawn into stories that cross over into "the otherness".
I enjoyed Harbingers and thought it was one of the better Repairman Jack stories. We get to see a little bit more of Jack and his family of characters. To see a little more of what makes Jack tick.
Good February 25, 2008
I chose the cheap shipping and it was still here pretty quick, exactly what I ordered and in good shape. Repairman Jack is amazing!
If Bo Derek Were a Book... January 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Harbingers is a '10.' Oddly enough, it's also the 10th entry in the Repairman Jack series. Coincidence? No way.
Long-time readers know that there are no coincidences in Jack's life, and in this book F. Paul Wilson reveals exactly how true that statement is. The story picks up a month after the events from 'Infernal' conclude. Jack is still mourning the loss of both his father and brother, and has retreated to his favorite bar to wile the days away. The action picks up half a paragraph later and doesn't let up until the final page. The characterizations and action sequences feature some of Wilson's strongest writing, and the revelations that are revealed will have you turning pages long after your bedtime.
Wilson will hard-pressed to top this! Highly recommended.
Suspenseful page-turner December 22, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Repairman Jack doesn't officially exist. He has no social security number, no tax records, no legal identity of any kind. But his girlfriend Gia is pregnant with their baby and Jack can't be the husband and father he needs to be if he is a legal non-entity. With the help of his friend, Abe, he sets up an opportunity to be "resurrected" under a new identity as a man who recently died. Before he can get to that, however, Jack meets a group of "men in black" who are tied into the war between the Ally and the Otherness. They want Jack to join them, and he's half-tempted to take them up on the offer. But things are never simple for our favorite repairman and Jack faces perhaps his most harrowing challenge yet as the story unfolds.
While there are supernatural elements in Harbingers, the book primarily pits Jack against human opponents. We see the Adversary briefly, and we meet someone who has something of a direct pipeline to the Ally, but mostly Jack uses his brains and guns against good old humans who threaten his loved ones. The plot moves along at a strong pace from start to finish and the tension builds to a fevered pitch in the second half of the book. More than most in the series, this is a genuine page-turner.
Supporting characters have a minimal role in Harbingers, with the exception of the group that tries to recruit Jack. Filling classic good cop, bad cop roles are Davis and Miller. One is genuine and down-to-earth and the other is a borderline psychotic. Both are compelling in their own way and help provide conflict within Jack as to whether he wants to join up with them or not. Gia and Vicky don't have large roles in the traditional sense, but the threat they face ends up as the driving force to the story and, in some ways, the entire series to this point.
Harbingers is easily one of the very best Repairman Jack novels and a must-read for any fan of the series. I would not recommend it to newcomers as an entry point as some past stories are referred to, and it would likely confuse someone who hasn't read them. This book will also be a major spoiler to anyone who hasn't already read Infernal: A Repairman Jack Novel (Repairman Jack).
Repairman Jack Harbingers December 11, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Repairman Jack lives on and on in another F.Paul WIlson novel that provides intrigue, suspense and fondness for the main character. A definite need for RJ collectors.
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