By F. Paul Wilson
F. Paul Wilson's attractive, self-employed, off-the-books fixer, Repairman Jack, returns for one more extreme, action-packed experience a little bit over the border into the unusual, in The Haunted Air. First brought years in the past within the bestseller The Tomb, Jack has been the hero of a chain of fascinating novels set in and round ny urban, together with Legacies, Conspiracies, all of the Rage, and Hosts. "Repairman Jack is a superb personality, ultracompetent yet nonetheless susceptible. Wilson strolls into X-Files territory and makes it his personal, maintaining the motion brisk and the extent of suspense gradually rising," acknowledged the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle.
Repairman Jack does not think a home should be haunted. yet he is approximately to alter that music . . .
It started out as a lark, a late-night jaunt from a monotonous social gathering to the house of a psychic medium, with Jack dragged alongside as a reluctant player. yet once Jack and Gia step around the threshold, the home and the earth itself shake to the accompaniment of a tortured scream.
Menelaus Manor sits atop an enormous geologic fault referred to as Cameron's Line. yet that is not it is only challenge. the home has a awful historical past. Its unique proprietor died of melanoma; his son blew his brains out within the basement; the couple that received it subsequent have been came across useless of their mattress with their throats slashed; presently thereafter a baby was once horribly mutilated in an upstairs bed room.
The present vendors, Lyle and Charlie Kenton, shrewdpermanent practitioners of spiritualist hocus-pocus, use high-tech tips to dupe their marks. possibly they are too strong: they have lured too many purchasers from different mediums and at the moment are lower than assault. not able to visit the police for worry of disclosing their very own scams, they rent Repairman Jack to mend their problem.
Jack takes the activity, figuring he will straighten out the placement through conducting considered one of his favourite pursuits: scamming a scammer. yet quickly he learns that this fix-it consists of greater than specialist jealousy within the spook exchange. The earthquake marked the awakening of whatever in Menelaus Manor, anything that was an individual, an entity filled with rage and taken again for a selected objective.
But this entity has an time table all its personal . . .
Before he is comprehensive Jack will commute from the seamy global of psychic scams to the interior circle of a well-connected homicide cult, and at last into the darkish center of insanity the place he needs to strike a care for a rage-filed entity again from the dead.
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He gripped Charlie's arm as Lyle began to flow towards them. "I've acquired you. seize him as he comes by means of. " yet as Lyle turned around their manner, the sucking heart of the whirlpool pulled him toward it and extra from the partitions. He attempted to swim towards Charlie's outstretched hand; Jack might see the desperation in his blood-soaked positive factors as he reached for it, heard his cry of dismay as his arms fell brief by means of inches and he swirled away. "Swim! " Charlie shouted. "Swim towards the partitions! " Jack may possibly see Lyle suffering within the thick fluid, doing a crude dog-paddle. He used to be a awful swimmer. "Can't! " he gasped. "Current's too robust! " "We want rope! " Jack instructed Charlie. "Got any? " "Rope? " Charlie's panic looked as if it would ease as he targeting the query. "No… we have string but—" "Never mind," Jack stated. the answer have been correct in his hand. He became to Gia. "I desire you to return as much as the kitchen for a minute. " "I'm no longer leaving—" "Just stand within the doorway. Please. i would like you out of the stairwell to do that. Hurry. We won't get one other shot. " She became and padded again to the head step and grew to become, staring at him with apprehensive eyes. Jack her a number of steps, then grabbed the railing with either arms. "Charlie—help me rip this out of the wall. " Charlie frowned, then brightened. "Right! " Ten seconds later Jack was once easing towards the pink pool with the ten-foot railing in his fingers. The blood had risen previous the midway mark at the partitions and used to be relocating speedier. Lyle had rounded the a ways facet of the whirlpool and used to be coming their approach back, yet now he was once even toward the black-hole heart. "Quick! " Jack acknowledged to Charlie as he stepped onto a blood-covered step. His abdominal clenched—it was once hot. "Grab my belt so i do not move in too. " "Oh, Jack, please be cautious! " Gia referred to as from above. With Charlie steadying him from in the back of, Jack gripped one finish of the railing and thrust the opposite towards Lyle as he swirled by means of. The some distance finish struck the outside, splashing blood into Lyle's face. He whipped his fingers approximately blindly, slapping his fingers at the floor, greedy basically air. Jack leaned farther out and felt a tearing soreness in his correct flank yet saved attempting to regular the railing opposed to the present and push it toward Lyle. He was hoping he hadn't popped his stitches. after which certainly one of Lyle's flailing fingers made touch. His hands clutched the wooden, then wrapped round it. "You've obtained it! " Jack acknowledged, feeling himself tilting towards the pool via the additional pull at the railing. Over his shoulder he stated to Charlie, "And i'm hoping you will have me. " "Don't worry," Charlie stated, then raised his voice. "Get either arms on it, Lyle! " Lyle did simply that, after which Jack and Charlie started hauling him in. however the pool did not appear to are looking to supply him up. The maelstrom became swifter and the extent started to drop as a noisy sucking sound echoed from the guts. It took all of Jack and Charlie's mixed energy to carry onto the railing, yet they have been wasting this tug of warfare. Jack attempted to place extra of his again into it however the discomfort in his facet worsened.