From Publishers Weekly
In Wilson's well-wrought ninth Repairman Jack novel (after 2004's Crisscross), the off-the-books fix-it man, urban vigilante and paranormal adventurer reconnects with his estranged brother, Tom, after their father is gunned down in a terrorist attack at La Guardia Airport. Tom, a corrupt Philadelphia judge who's fleeing the law and rapidly running out of money, persuades Jack to help him look for the wreckage of a Spanish treasure ship that sank in 1598 off Bermuda. Instead of treasure, however, the brothers haul up an odd, skin-covered, oblong object known as the Lilitongue of Gefreda. It looks harmless enough, but research tells them that those who come in contact with it vanish to the "Otherness." The plot moves briskly but never recklessly, the dialogue is salty and witty, and the characters have enough dimension to elevate them above the genre pack. Jack, introduced more than 20 years ago, is aging gracefully.
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Repairman Jack, the fix-it man who deals in the marginally supernatural, returns in another out-of-this-world adventure. It begins with tragedy: Jack's father is killed during a terrorist attack on an airport. This thrusts Jack and his brother, Tom, together. The two men have never been close (Tom is a judge; Jack lives off the grid), but Tom persuades Jack to accompany him on, of all things, a shipwreck hunt. What they find is something altogether more interesting and a great deal more dangerous: the Lilitongue of Gefreda, a device (sort of) that serves as a portal to another dimension (kind of). Naturally, things get very weird very fast, and in no time Jack must summon all his skills to escape certain death. A worthy addition to the Repairman Jack series. David Pitt
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