A Repairman Jack Novel
Tor Books
April 2004
On Sale: April 19, 2004
Featuring: Jack
544 pages ISBN: 081255731X EAN: 9780812557312 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
F. Paul Wilson's engaging, self-employed, off-the-books
fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for another intense,
action-packed adventure just a little over the border into
the weird, in The Haunted Air. First introduced years
ago in the bestseller The Tomb, Jack has been the
hero of a series of exciting novels set in and around New
York City, including Legacies,
Conspiracies, All the Rage, and Hosts.
"Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but
still vulnerable. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and
makes it his own, keeping the action brisk and the level of
suspense steadily rising," said the San Francisco
Examiner & Chronicle.
Repairman Jack doesn't
believe a house can be haunted. But he's about to change
that tune . . .
It started off as a lark, a
late-night jaunt from a boring party to the home of a
psychic medium, with Jack dragged along as a reluctant
participant. But as soon as Jack and Gia step across the
threshold, the house and the earth itself shake to the
accompaniment of a tortured scream.
Menelaus Manor
sits atop a major geologic fault known as Cameron's Line.
But that's not it's only problem. The house has a horrific
history. Its original owner died of cancer; his son blew his
brains out in the basement; the couple that bought it next
were found dead in their bed with their throats slashed;
shortly thereafter a child was horribly mutilated in an
upstairs bedroom.
The current owners, Lyle and
Charlie Kenton, clever practitioners of spiritualist
hocus-pocus, use high-tech tricks to dupe their marks.
Perhaps they're too good: they've lured too many clients
from other mediums and are now under attack. Unable to go to
the police for fear of exposing their own scams, they hire
Repairman Jack to fix their problem.
Jack takes the
job, figuring he'll straighten out the situation by engaging
in one of his favorite pastimes: scamming a scammer. But
soon he learns that this fix-it involves more than
professional jealousy in the spook trade. The earthquake
marked the awakening of something in Menelaus Manor,
something that used to be someone, an entity full of rage
and brought back for a specific purpose.
But this
entity has an agenda all its own . . .
Before he's
finished Jack will travel from the seamy world of psychic
scams to the inner circle of a well-connected murder cult,
and finally into the dark heart of madness where he must
strike a deal with a rage-filed entity returned from the dead.
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