Bloodline (Repairman Jack Series #11) » (Bargain)

F. Paul Wilson, the New York Times bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels, is a practicing physician who lives in Wall, New Jersey.

Jack has been on hiatus since the events in Harbingers. With his lover Gia s encouragement he dips a toe back into the fix-it pool. Christy Pickering s eighteen-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn t returning her calls. Will Jack find out why?

Jack learns there s a very good reason for the unreturned calls: The PI is dead, a victim of a bizarre water-torture murder. As Jack delves into Jerry Bethlehem s past he learns that the man is not who he says he is. Who - and what - he is will have a devastating effect on Jack s life and future, adding another piece to the puzzle of who he really is and why he s been drafted into this cosmic shadow war.

Publishers Weekly

A monstrous scheme to create an evil superman through crude efforts at gene jiggering bedevils urban mercenary Repairman Jack in his 11th outing (after 2006's Harbingers). When Jack, a New York City paranormal "fixer," agrees to help Christy Pickering break up a relationship between her 18-year-old daughter and an older man, Jerry Bethlehem, he discovers Bethlehem is a violent criminal whose past includes abortion clinic bombings and a stay at a government-funded clinic conducting DNA research. Pickering is circumspect about her own background and her daughter's paternity. When Jack probes unspoken links between Pickering and Bethlehem, his investigation intrudes inexplicably upon a shady self-help guru. Sinuous plot twists and shocking revelations abound, but Wilson manages to pull these wildly disparate plot threads together, and tie them dexterously to the series' overarching chronicle of a battle between occult forces in which Jack serves as a reluctant but responsible warrior. Like its predecessors, this novel shows why Jack's saga has become the most entertaining and dependable modern horror-thriller series. (Oct.)