By F. Paul Wilson
Following final year's winning The Haunted Air, F. Paul Wilson returns with one other riveting episode within the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, inventive, and heroic champion of these whose difficulties not anyone else can remedy. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is without doubt one of the most unusual and interesting characters to come up out of latest fiction in a while. His adventures are highly entertaining."
In Gateways, Jack learns that his father is in a coma after a automobile coincidence in Florida. they have been at the outs, yet this can be his dad, so he heads south. within the medical institution he meets Anya, one among his father's friends. She's a peculiar outdated duck who turns out to understand plenty approximately his father, or even much approximately Jack.
Jack's arrival doesn't cross omitted. a tender girl named Semelee, who has unusual abilities and lives in an remoted region of the Everglades with a bunch of misshapen males, feels his presence. She senses that he is "special," like her.
Anya takes Jack again to Dad's senior neighborhood, Gateways South, which borders at the Everglades. Florida goes via an strange drought. there is a ban on watering; every little thing is brown and wilting, yet Anya's garden is a deep eco-friendly.
Who is Anya? who's Semelee, and what's her connection to the hot unusual deaths of Gateways residents-killed by means of birds, spiders, and snakes-during the earlier 12 months? And what are the "lights" Jack retains listening to about-? lighting that emanate two times a yr from a sinkhole deep within the Everglades . . . lighting from one other position, one other reality.
If he's to guard his father from changing into the following fatality at Gateways, there are questions Jack needs to resolution, secrets and techniques he needs to discover. secrets and techniques . . . Jack has lots of his personal, and alongside the way in which he learns that even his father has secrets.
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Schoch smiled and, unusually, it didn’t holiday her face. “Amazingly nice. Dr. Huerta’s arising to work out you. ” “Who’s he? ” “She. She’s been caring for you because you have been introduced in to the ED. ” “Well, she’d larger get right here quickly, simply because once I end this Jell-O, I’m going domestic. ” Jack and Schoch begun conversing even as, telling him he couldn’t, that he’d simply had a significant damage, and so forth and so forth. Didn’t faze him. “I don’t like hospitals. i believe wonderful. I’m going domestic. ” Jack famous the be aware of finality in his father’s voice. He’d heard it as a child. It intended Dad had made up his brain and that was once that. “You can’t,” Schoch informed him. He peered at her via his glasses. “I bet I’m a bit pressured. while did I turn into the hospital’s estate? ” Schoch blinked and Jack guessed nobody had ever requested her that. “You’re by no means the hospital’s estate, yet you turned its accountability for those who have been wheeled during the doorways. ” “I get pleasure from that,” he stated. “Really, I do. And from the way in which i think instantly, you’ve all performed a superb activity. yet I not want a health facility, so I’m going domestic. Where’s the matter? ” “The challenge, Dad…,” Jack acknowledged, feeling his endurance slipping. His father used to be appearing dumb. “The challenge is that you just had a major accident—” “So I’m instructed. Can’t take into account something approximately it so i assume I’ll need to take people’s observe for it. ” “It happened,” Jack advised him. “I’ve noticeable the auto. Totaled. ” He winced. “Not even a 12 months outdated. ” He shook his head. “I want i'll consider. ” Jack watched his father’s expression. used to be that worry in his eyes? was once he afraid? Of what? “That’s now not the point,” he informed him. “The element is you’ve been in a coma for 3 days and the way can we understand you won’t lapse again into one within the subsequent minute or hour or day? ” His smile used to be skinny. “We don’t. but when I do, you could deliver me again the following. ” He held out his arm—the one with the IV working into it—to Schoch. “Would you get rid of that, please? ” She shook her head. “Not with no doctor’s orders. ” “Okay, then. I’ll do it myself. ” “Christ, Dad,” Jack acknowledged as his father begun peeling off the tape that held the road in position. “All correct, all right,” Schoch stated. “I’ll take it out for you. simply enable me get a tray. ” As she lumbered out, Jack checked out Anya. She hadn’t acknowledged a observe via all this. He checked out his father who had diminished the pinnacle of his medical institution dress and was once peeling off the cardiac display screen leads. “Can’t you persuade him? ” he stated to her. “I evidently can’t. ” Oyv popped his head out of her vast straw bag as Anya shook hers. “I could be making his judgements? He’s no longer loopy. ” “He’s performing loopy. ” “He desires to depart the health facility simply because he feels high-quality. What’s so loopy approximately that? ” thank you for the assistance, he notion. He’d suppose significantly better if his father may remain only one extra day, to ensure his used to be strong. He needed to give you the option round his reckless stubbornness. Anya used to be gazing him. “Switch areas. What may you do in his state of affairs? ” I’d get the hell out of the following and pass domestic, he suggestion.