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Conspiracies (Adversary Cycle/Repairman Jack Book 3) Kindle Edition
Repairman Jack, F. Paul Wilson's vigilante hero from the New York Times bestseller The Tomb, returns in a thriller that thrusts him 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's 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 aren't through with him quite yet.
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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherForge Books
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2024
- File size3.4 MB
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Melanie is a leading voice in the conspiracy-theory movement, a true believer that crop circles, UFOs, and even El Niño are all part of the same vast plot against humankind. She dubs this her "Grand Unification Theory," or GUT. One week before announcing the GUT theory to the world, Melanie vanishes and Jack is plunged deep into her weird world as he attends the conference where Melanie was due to speak. Jack is initially amused by the eccentricities of the alien abductees and Satanic cult survivors Melanie counted among her colleagues; but an apparently supernatural force, a murder, a disappearing corpse, and a creature straight from the bowels of hell put his skepticism to the test.
Conspiracies is another tightly plotted thriller from F. Paul Wilson, tinged with enough horror and supernatural suspense to please both mystery lovers and horror hounds. Repairman Jack reigns as one of the most alluring and mysterious private investigators in the business. --Naomi Gesinger
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“Repairman Jack is a wonderful character, ultracompetent but still vulnerable. While there's plenty of violence in Conspiracies, there's also a lot of humor.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“Repairman Jack is one of the most original and intriguing characters to arise out of contemporary fiction in ages. . . .Hugely entertaining.” ―Dean Koontz on The Tomb
“The Tomb is one of the best all-out adventure stories I've read in years.” ―Stephen King, President of the Repairman Jack Fan Club
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TUESDAYIJack looked around the front room of his apartment and figured he was either going to have to move to a bigger place, or stop buying stuff. He had nowhere to put his new Daddy Warbucks lamp.Well, not new exactly. It had been made sometime in the 1940s, but it was in great shape. The base was a glazed plaster cast of Daddy from the waist up, his hand gripping a lapel of his tuxedo, a tiny rhinestone in place of his diamond stick pin. He was grinning, and his pupilless eyes showed not the slightest trace of concern about the lamp stem and socket shell emerging from his bald pate.Jack had found it in a Soho nostalgia shop, and talked the owner down to eighty-five dollars for it. He would have paid twice that. The apartment didn't need another lamp, but Jack needed this one. Warbucks was such a stand-up guy. No way Jack could pass it up. No bulb or lampshade, but that was easily remedied. Problem was, where to put it?He did a slow turn. His home was the third floor of a brownstone in the West Eighties, and smelled of old wood. Not surprising since the place was crammed with Victorian golden oak furniture. The walls and shelves were cluttered with memorabilia and tchotchkes from the thirties and forties. Everything in sight except for the computer monitor existed before he was born. Even the Cartoon Network--he could see the large-screen TV in the extra bedroom--was playing a toon from the thirties with a big-eyedowlet crooning how he loved "to sing-a, about the moon-a anna June-a anna spring-a ... ." And here in the front room, not a single empty horizontal surface left ...Except for the computer monitor.Jack placed the Daddy Warbucks lamp on top of the monitor, which sat atop Jack's antique oak rolltop desk. The processor sat on the floor in the kneehole, and the keyboard hid under the rolltop. The monitor didn't look comfortable perched up there, but then, the computer didn't really fit anywhere in the room--a plastic iceberg adrift in a sea of wavy-grained oak.But you couldn't be in business these days without one. Jack didn't understand all that much about computers, but he loved the anonymity they afforded in communications.He hadn't checked his email since this morning, so he lit up the monitor and rolled up the tambour top to reveal his keyboard. He logged on through one of his ISPs--Jack had multiple accounts under various names with a number of Internet service providers, and maintained a Web site through one of them. Everything he'd read said that people were increasingly looking to the Internet to solve all sorts of problems, so Jack figured he might as well make himself available to folks searching there for his kind of solution.Half a dozen emails from the Web site waited, but only one seemed worth answering, and that barely:Jack--I need your help. It's about my wife. Please call me or email me back, but =please= get back to me.It was signed "Lewis Ehler" and he'd left two numbers, one in Brooklyn, the other on Long Island.It's about my wife ... not some guy who wanted toknow if she was cheating, he hoped. Marital problems weren't in Jack's line.He had another job just starting up, but that promised to be mostly night work. Which meant his days would be free.He wrote down the numbers, then headed out to make the call.Copyright © 2000 by F. Paul Wilson
Product details
- ASIN : B005M29YQW
- Publisher : Forge Books; First edition (August 6, 2024)
- Publication date : August 6, 2024
- Language : English
- File size : 3.4 MB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 430 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #402,292 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,669 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- #1,700 in Occult Horror
- #1,704 in Conspiracy Thrillers (Kindle Store)
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About the author

I was born toward the end of the Jurassic Period and raised in New Jersey where I misspent my youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed, and watching Soupy Sales and horror movies. I sold my first story in the Cretaceous Period and have been writing ever since. (Even that dinosaur-killer asteroid couldn't stop me.)
I've written in just about every genre - science fiction, fantasy, horror, young adult, a children's Christmas book (with a monster, of course), medical thrillers, political thrillers, even a religious thriller (long before that DaVinci thing). So far I've got about 55 books and 100 or so short stories under my name in 24 languages.
I guess I'm best known for the Repairman Jack series which ran 23 novels. Jack is out to pasture now, but I may bring him back if the right story comes along.
THE KEEP, THE TOMB, HARBINGERS, BY THE SWORD, and NIGHTWORLD all appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; THE TOMB received the Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. My novelette "Aftershock" received the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. DYDEETOWN WORLD was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others (God knows why). I received the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon and the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention. I'm listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America. (That plus $3 will buy you a coffee at Starbuck's.)
My novel THE KEEP was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) from Paramount in 1983. My original teleplay "Glim-Glim" first aired on Monsters. An adaptation of my short story "Menage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997.
And then there's the epic saga of the Repairman Jack film. After 20 years in development hell with half a dozen writers and at least a dozen scripts, Beacon Films has decided that "Repairman Jack" might be better suited for TV than theatrical films. (We'll see how that works out.)
I've done a few collaborations too: with Steve Spruill on NIGHTKILL, A NECESSARY END with Sarah Pinborough, THE PROTEUS CURE with Tracy Carbone, and the Nocturnia series with Thomas Moneleone. Back in the 1990s, Matthew J. Costello and I did world design, characters, and story arcs for Sci-Fi Channel's FTL NewsFeed, a daily newscast set 150 years in the future. An FTL NewsFeed was the first program broadcast by the new channel when it launched in September 1992. We took over scripting the Newsfeeds (the equivalent of a 4-1/2 hour movie per year) in 1994 and continued until its cancellation in December 1996.
We did script and design for MATHQUEST WITH ALADDIN (Disney Interactive - 1997) with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, and the same for The Interactive DARK HALF for Orion Pictures, based on the Stephen King novel, but this project was orphaned when MGM bought Orion. (It's officially vaporware now.) We did two novels together (MIRAGE and DNA WARS) and even wrote a stageplay, "Syzygy," which opened in St. Augustine, Florida, in March, 2000.
I'm tired of talking about myself, so I'll close by saying that I live and work at the Jersey Shore where I'm usually pounding away on a new novel and haunting eBay for strange clocks and Daddy Warbucks memorabilia. (No, we don't have a cat.)
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Customers enjoy the book and find it well-written. They describe the stories as exciting, mysterious, and gripping. The characters are well-developed with colorful side characters. Readers love the series and consider it amazing. However, opinions differ on the writing style. Some find it well-written and engaging, while others feel the descriptions are a bit long-winded and lack clarity.
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Customers enjoy the book and find it well-written with good character development. They love the series and find the first five books wonderful. The characters keep getting better and better, making them worth the wait.
"...This series is so amazing, I am going to jump right into the next title!" Read more
"...readers of The Tomb and Legacies; for such readers, this book should be quite enjoyable." Read more
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"...Somehow I missed the Jack.books. Well.worth the time to read this one...." Read more
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"...readers who want to enjoy a book with interesting characters, a good plot, and unusual ideas Wilson's books are more than good enough." Read more
"...I think I’ve even started dreaming of hid pursuits. Engaging, riveting, exhilarating! I don’t have enough good things to say...." Read more
Customers enjoy the well-developed characters. They find the reluctant hero, Repairman Jack, to be a perfect character. The book has a colorful cast of side characters and villains.
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"...Fast-paced,,original.McGuffin, truly nasty villains. Will read the rest." Read more
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Customers enjoy the Repairman Jack series. They find the stories engaging and praise the author as a skilled storyteller.
"Wow!!! This was another awesome Repairman Jack title! Not only were there a lot of clever twists in this, but what an intense ending!..." Read more
"...Virgin, or Wheels Within Wheels most of the time the Repairman Jack series is amazing...." Read more
"...He's an avid reader and he just loves Repairman Jack novels. Actually I got two books from the same author, F. Paul Wilson...." Read more
"Love all the Repairman Jack books that I have read, and this is at the beginning. They just keep getting better and better...." Read more
Customers enjoy the suspenseful content. They find the stories exciting, mysterious, and thrilling with an edge of supernatural horror. The books feature wacky characters and situations that Jack enjoys.
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"...not 5, but F.Paul Wilson is an great author and anyone into suspense, sci-fi, supernatural books should pick up this series...." Read more
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Customers have different views on the writing style. Some find it well-written with good characters, while others feel the descriptions are a bit long-winded and the book lacks clarity.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2024Wow!!! This was another awesome Repairman Jack title! Not only were there a lot of clever twists in this, but what an intense ending! The situations Jack gets himself into are definitely not good on his health physically or mentally, and this one took some solid hits to both. This series is so amazing, I am going to jump right into the next title!
- Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2007Over the years, F. Paul Wilson has written quite a few books (over thirty, based on the list at the beginning of my edition of Conspiracies). Many of these books fit into a single world where a dark force known as the Otherness wreaks havoc, especially with its primary agent, The Adversary. Among these books is the series featuring Repairman Jack, a sort-of urban vigilante who rights wrongs, but usually only for cash. Although the first Repairman Jack book - The Tomb - is also considered part of Wilson's Adversary Cycle, the link is not immediately apparent. It is with Conspiracies that Jack is finally drawn into the broader Otherness mythology (and in which The Tomb's link is finally explained).
Conspiracies is the third Repairman Jack book, following the aforementioned Tomb and the nonsupernatural Legacies. In this novel, Jack is hired by Lew Ehler, whose wife has disappeared. At first, this seems like a simple case, even though Jack thinks Lew is crazy: since his wife Melanie disappeared, Lew only got one message from her, through his TV, telling him to hire Jack.
Melanie is a member of SESOUP, an organization whose members believe in various conspiracies. There are believers in UFP conspiracies, "New World Order" conspiracies, Satanic cults and other fringe ideas. Shortly before her disappearance, Melanie was going to propose a Grand Unified Theory that would tie all the various ideas together. Since some of SESOUP's members are not all that stable, anything that threatens their own theories may cause them to go over the edge; this, at least, is what Jack thinks. There is also SESOUP's head, Salvatore (or Sal) Roma, a person who Jack finds rather sinister (and whose name holds a hidden significance for readers of Wilson's other books).
This simple missing persons case turns out to be anything but simple, as strange, supernatural events occur and Jack is plagued by very realistic nightmares (involving events from The Tomb). There is the strange device that appears in Jack's hotel room, the evil monkey familiar of Roma's and the very mysterious men in black.
One big theme in this book is Wilson's general indictment of these grand conspiracies. Most of the ones presented within (which are similar to some very real ones) demonstrate the paranoia of the theorists. At the same time, Wilson is not overly harsh, and presents many of the SESOUP members as somewhat disturbed but also sympathetic.
Admittedly, I started this series with book seven (Gateways) before backtracking to The Tomb, so I can see some of the directions Wilson is going in. This book stands alone as a good story, while also drawing the reader into something bigger. As is typically the case, this is well written and a real page-turner. Although it does stand alone, I think this works best for readers of The Tomb and Legacies; for such readers, this book should be quite enjoyable.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2013I continue to be amazed by the quality of work coming from F. Paul Wilson. While I still favour his quick reads like The Terry, Healer, Virgin, or Wheels Within Wheels most of the time the Repairman Jack series is amazing. What gets to me is Wilson's ability to avoid getting stuck in a rut or repeating himself. All of the first five books in the series are wonderful but all show sufficient variety to be fresh even though Wilson uses a similar formula as the driver of plot through all of his novels.
For those who are not familiar with Wilson's series, Repariman Jack is a 'fixer' who makes wrong things right. While his family is mistakenly under the impression that he is an underachiever who fixes appliances his customers depend on him to get out of some serious trouble. Jack lives off the grid in NY City. He has no real driver's license, no social security number, no passport, and no ID of any kind that can be found in a government database. He gets paid in cash and 'saves' by taping gold coins to his plumbing pipes. He uses guns when he needs to but prefers to settle matters with the least amount of violence possible. In Conspiracies we see Wilson fill in some of the details that were missing in The Tomb and are introduced to another important character who will make more appearances in later novels. Wilson is not a 'great writer' as far as your literature professors are concerned but to normal readers who want to enjoy a book with interesting characters, a good plot, and unusual ideas Wilson's books are more than good enough.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2023What can I say, whether an everyday occurrence or a paranormal issue, Jack’s your man. I think I’ve even started dreaming of hid pursuits. Engaging, riveting, exhilarating! I don’t have enough good things to say. F. Paul Wilson is an extraordinary writer! I just wish they went on sake on occasion as they are pricey, and I don’t get to read it often.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2019As good and exciting as book two was, book three is equally... boring. It wasn't bad persay, but the vast majority of the book was spent in conversations about conspiracies theories. While seemingly interesting, the undercurrent of unbelievability in each made them feel like wasted page space (which they were). More wasted page space occurred with 'fake' dream sequences (at least 4). Add to it a poorly paced, rapid-fire, ending that led to more questions then plot resolutions and the book was completely meh.
The only saving grace is the book sets the stage for a larger story further down the road.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017Do you enjoy well-paced, taut thrillers with an edge of supernatural horror that slowly emanates out of the dark corners of your peripheral vision, leaping at you with a crash-bang of existentially terrifying goodness? Then F. Paul Wilson is for you and this work in particular is stellar. A handful of days and a colorful cast of side characters surround Repairman Jack, who is fully and consciously pulled into the cosmic conflict at the heart of the Secret History of the World, with stakes both epic and personal.
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- Kindle CustomerReviewed in Canada on June 4, 2022
5.0 out of 5 stars Wilson does it again
I recommend this book to all my friends, if you treadmill as I do....you will read while on the treadmill....makes the time fly!!! I'm woohoo hooked on repairman jack
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 5, 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars I love this series
I came upon Repairman Jack when I read The Barrens and Others, which was recommended by Charles De Lint in the Nov edition of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Digest that I subscribe to on the kindle. I'm now on about book 10/11 of this series and can definitely say they worth buying - and the price is reasonable to.
In this book you find out about the otherness and there are a lot of supernatural going ons.
- Southampton GuyReviewed in Canada on July 21, 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally!
It has been years since I borrowed the occasional Repairman Jack novel from the library. I am purchasing them all in sequence and am thrilled to reading the whole series in sequence.
- MollieReviewed in the United Kingdom on February 7, 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant
F Paul Wilso never fails to delight with his books. I had not read them for ages when I found a copy of the Keep in a charity shop and now I am hooked!!!
- ASwannReviewed in Canada on July 22, 2018
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Fairly good and amusing.