(pb; 1998: second book in the Repairman Jack series.)
From the back cover
“Repairman Jack isn’t your average appliance repairman—he fixes situations for people, often risking his own life. Jack has no last name, no social security number, works only for cash, and has no qualms when it comes to seeing that the job gets done.
“Dr. Alicia Clayton, a pediatrician who treats children with AIDS, is full of secrets, and he has just inherited a house that holds another. Haunted by painful memories, Alicia wants the house destroyed—but somehow everyone she enlists to help ends up violently killed. The house holds a powerful secret, and Alicia’s charmless brother Thomas seems willing to do anything to get his hands on that secret himself.
“But not if Repairman Jack can
find it first!”
Review
Legacies, with its multicharacter B-storylines and neo-noir/conspiracy thriller elements, continues almost directly after the events of The Tomb. Gio DiLauro, his love interest in that book, becomes an indirect conduit and constant ally in this corporate, sometimes sorrow-laced thriller where a world-changing piece of technology leads to a strange cycle of killings, every one of them a corpse closer to Jack and those he cares about. Was glad to see Abe Grossman, also from Tomb, play a vital part in the novel’s fast-paced, swift-reader-immersion events and characters, with plenty of layered story to go along with its strong action sequences. As is often the case with Wilson, the writing elements feel deftly balanced and melded, making for a sequel entry that matches, and expands upon, its source work. Worth owning, this.
Followed by Conspiracies.
