101. Title & Author: Legacies (A Repairman Jack Novel) by F. Paul WilsonGenre: Fiction--Mystery & Thriller
Completed: 3 July 2009
Summary & Review:
After a 14 year hiatus, Wilson brings back the character of Repairman Jack in the second installment of the series. Alicia Clayton, a young doctor at a New York City clinic for children with AIDS, sets out to learn what is hidden in the house left to her by her estranged, deceased father that would make a mysterious group do anything to get it. After her lawyer is murdered with a car bomb, she turns to Jack to help her find the mysterious technology that a Middle Eastern oil conglomerate is desperate to prevent the world from having.
I have read a lot of series following a character, like Lee Child's Jack Reacher, Clancy's Jack Ryan, or Flynn's Mitch Rapp, but Repairman Jack is the best of all of them. Wilson gives the character a good, believable balance between special-ops skills and human frailties and weaknesses that allows the reader to connect to him better than to those almost superhero-like protagonists of many other similar series. Although this book didn't have any of the touches of science fiction that The Tomb (#19) or Crisscross (#13) d0, those touches are another element that makes the Repairman Jack books unique and entertaining.
Rating: 8.5
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