(pb; 2000: third book in the
Repairman Jack series)
From the back cover
“Repairman Jack, F. Paul
Wilson’s vigilante hero from 1984’s The Tomb and 1998’s Legacies returns
in a thriller that thrusts Jack back into the weird, supernatural world that he
thrives in. Looking for clues to the mysterious disappearance of leading
conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler. Jack attends a convention of bizarre and
avid conspiracy theorists. It is a place where aliens are real, the government
is out to get you, and the world is hurtling toward an inevitable war of good
versus evil incarnate. Jack finds that nobody can be trusted—and that few
people are what they seem. Worse yet, Jack’s been having vivid dreams that make
him wonder whether he’s headed for a clash with his own past—maybe The Tomb’s
evil rakoshi beasts are through with him quite yet.”
Review
Conspiracies takes
place almost immediately after the events of Legacies, with Jack searching
for a missing woman (Melanie Ehler) at an unusual conspiracy theories convention
where danger, human-based and supranatural, threatens its attendees. Then there’s
the nightmares—not just Jack’s, which center around the terrifying and fierce rakoshi,
whom he thought he’d vanquished in The Tomb, leading Jack and others to
wonder: why are its other attendees having nighttime terror visions as well?
Stephen King fans may especially
enjoy Wilson’s vivid, cinematic writing (with its affectionate and pulpy-at-time
descriptions of New York) as well as Conspiracies’s multicharacter
B-storylines and neo-noir/conspiracy thriller elements. Conspiracies, lots of
humor and Lovecraftian fear dominate Wilson’s prose and characters as they try
to make it without losing their minds—and their lives.
Conspiracies expands
on the characters, storylines and Wilson’s “secret history of the world” (which
unifies his published work), while setting up future vigilante action and (possible)
villains in later Repairman Jack books, the next one All the Rage.
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