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    Cold City
    Cold City
    Cold City
    Audiobook11 hours

    Cold City

    Written by F. Paul Wilson

    Narrated by Alexander Cendese

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    Cold City is the first of three Repairman Jack prequels, revealing the past of one of the most popular characters in contemporary dark fantasy: a self-styled "fix-it" man who is no stranger to the macabre or the supernatural, hired by victimized people who have no one else to turn to.

    We join Jack a few months after his arrival in New York City. He doesn't own a gun yet, though he's already connected with Abe. Soon he'll meet Julio and the Mikulski brothers. He runs afoul of some Dominicans, winds up at the East Side Marriott the night Meir Kahane is shot, gets on the bad side of some Arabs, starts a hot affair, and disrupts the smuggling of preteen sex slaves. And that's just Book One.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 27, 2012
    ISBN9781469261768
    Author

    F. Paul Wilson

    F. Paul Wilson is the New York Times bestselling author of horror, adventure, medical thrillers, science fiction, and virtually everything in between. His books include the Repairman Jack novels—including Ground Zero, The Tomb, and Fatal Error—the Adversary cycle—including The Keep—and a young adult series featuring the teenage Jack. Wilson has won the Prometheus Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the Inkpot Award from the San Diego ComiCon, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers of America, among other honors. He lives in Wall, New Jersey.

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    • 3/5
      First of all, there is way too much bad language. Story is pretty good. I read this without reading the previous Repairman Jack prequels, but there is a enough of a backstory presented in this book to create a sense of Jack's previous life. I am interested in the characters and events that were introduced here and will probably try the next one in the sequence. I listened to the Audible version and
    • 5/5
      If you've been following the Repairman Jack saga as I have, you've probably lamented the fact that there was a large portion of Jack's life unaccounted for, the portion between where the "Jack" young adult books end and where he appears in "The Tomb". Well, F. Paul Wilson has heard our moans and is filling in the blank spots with three books intended to placate us…and then, NO MORE! Or so he insists, which doesn't leave much room for any future…but that all got wrapped up in "The Dark at the End", right? Right?

      Anyway. "Cold City" finds Jack at home in NYC, having left the safe confines of his home in the Barrens to seek his fortune in the big (cold) city. He's already dropped out of Rutgers following the death of his mother (best explained in rest of the series) and is working in what he knew best, namely, groundskeeping. Doing well at it too, till a co-worker pushes him too far. Jack reacts as you expect Jack will, and the next thing you know, he's unemployed and being stalked by his revenge-seeking former co-workers. If you know Jack, you can imagine he's not exactly going to just sit and wait for them to come to him; instead, he decides to get himself ready for the inevitable payback and ends up calling at Isher Sports, home of the redoubtable Abe Grossman. Through Abe he finds work with a cigarette-runner at a grand a trip…not bad money.

      Except…that the people buying the illicit smokes are Muslims financing terrorism. Or, is that really all that's going on? There's a shadowy figure behind the Islamo-facists, and it won't take you long to deduce that The Order is at play here, as always doing what it can to promote chaos on behalf of The One. The R man hisownself doesn't make an appearance, not yet anyway, but you've got to wonder if he might get a guest shot in any of the subsequent new stories.

      Things only get more complicated when Jack gets coerced into trafficking a far more sinister cargo. And then he meets Julio, he of the bar with the dying ferns (only they're not dead yet) and goes out on his first "repair" job. Before you know it, Jack's enemies list has trebled. Oh, and there's a love interest too, to make things more convoluted than they already were.

      It was worth the wait. "Cold City" is as good a book as any in the Repairman Jack series, and I read it way too quickly. You will too. Here's hoping F. Paul is hard at work on the next installment.
    • 4/5
      Probably closer to a 4.5. I might have gone flat out 5 but was surprised that it wasn't a complete story. While Repairman Jack has always had a central theme running through all the books each individual book wrapped up its main story. The fact that this one didn't did leave me a little disappointed. Still I love the series and can't wait to read the next one.
    • 2/5
      The Repairman Jack books are an occasional read and I've come across them at random, so I've not followed the sequence properly, but basically he takes care of things that normal law enforcement types can't and comes across bizarre, supernatural evils that he has to deal with.
      This book is a prequel where Jack comes into New York City as a very young man, takes a dead end job, proceeds to run afoul of some workmates, gets fired and then gets involved with a seedy enterprise that should have been fairly straight-forward, as long as he gets out in time.
      Of course, things go badly wrong and he has to make some choices.
      As a story, it's okay, but these are real people he's up against,not nasty supernatural types (though something is hinted at through the story) One of the characters has a bit of a rant about the value of the right to bear extreme arms and at another time there's a lecture explaining how certain countries are used to slavery, it comes to them naturally, which doesn't sit terribly well when you think of the history of slavery in our own culture.
      So I'm only rating it 2 stars because those things leave a bad taste in my mouth.
    • 5/5
      Having never read any of the Repairman Jack novels, I thought Cold City would be a good place to start, since I would be starting the series in chronological order. I immediately found the character of Jack to be engaging, a twenty-one year old kid who is trying to live off the grid in a big city after avenging his mother’s death by killing the man who murdered her. He has a hard time controlling his temper as evidenced by giving a co-worker a horrific beating after the guy sucker-punched Jack. He befriends Abe, a wizened old Jew from New York who doesn’t always abide by the law but seems to have his own moral compass that guides him. Later, Jack gets a job running cigarettes from North Carolina. After saving twenty-eight young girls from being sold as sex slaves, by the end of the book, Jack has made himself a boatload of enemies, who want to see him dead.Jack is a sympathetic character who is easy to relate to. He is young and makes some very poor decisions, like not killing one of the sex slave traffickers and busting the guy’s knees instead. This novel seems like it was mostly setting the stage for what is to come in the subsequent books in the trilogy since nothing is resolved at the end. The pace of the novel is good and the writing is professional, making for a pleasant and easy read. I thought the characters were well-developed. The one thing I didn’t like is the Order, a shadowy international cartel with untold wealth and operatives whose objective is to create chaos. This group seemed very cliché, like about a dozen other groups I have read in fiction novels, and their goal of chaos seems silly and lacks believability. This was a fun read and I look forward to the next two novels in the series.Carl Alves - author of Conjesero
    • 2/5
      Cold City is a prequel to F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series. Unfortunately, the series would have been better had it been left alone. The story was contrived with almost all of Repairman Jack’s backstory unfolding over the course of a week. If you want to know how Jack connected with Abe, Julio, etc… you’ll find out in a very forced unenjoyable fashion. Skip this one.
    • 4/5
      Interesting beginning of Jack's adventures in New York. Liked the introduction of the Order and the normal multiple storylines. Did not like it that none of the storylines were really wrapped up - but other than that, cool introduction to adult Jack and how he starts to become the Repairman.
    • 3/5
      Jack, not yet Repairman, arrives in NYC and falls in with Abe and Julio. Adventures ensue. Nothing supernatural, except that the Septimus Order is lurking in the background. Also no plot closure, even in fairly minor matters; this is annoying.