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    Ground Zero
    Ground Zero
    Ground Zero
    Audiobook12 hours

    Ground Zero

    Written by F. Paul Wilson

    Narrated by Christopher Price

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    About this audiobook

    “Serves up the occult thrills fans of Wilson’s series have come to expect and tantalizes with the promise of more surprises to come.” —Publishers Weekly on By the Sword

    “Bloody, sordid, and apocalyptic but, thanks to Jack’s can-do attitude, plenty of fun.” —Kirkus Reviews on By the Sword

    On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the twin towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the planes and the Islamic extremists who funded them—the obvious choice. A few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No one—absolutely no one—will guess the truth behind the who and why of this day.

    Years later, someone does. Repairman Jack’s childhood friend Weezy Connell (the genius girl from Jack: Secret Histories) has started fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her conclusions on the Web. But she can’t stay anonymous forever. Someone is after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in every direction.

    They’re all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack has been drafted. And if the plot behind it—millennia in the planning—succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781469267463
    Ground Zero
    Author

    F. Paul Wilson

    F. Paul Wilson is a New York Times bestselling author specializing in thriller, science fiction and horror. He won the Prometheus award in 1979 and 2004, as well as a special Prometheus Lifetime Achievement award in 2015.

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    • 4/5
      GROUND ZERO breaks away from the pattern of the normal Repairman Jack novel. Wilson has already been working on tying up the series and bringing it to an end. Something that has been noticeable in the last few books due to their subplots that are both accelerating and not resolving completely. This time though Wilson takes it one step further and just builds on the mythos. The usual pattern for the Repairman Jack books is to have a primary plot that is related to the Adversary Cycle but at the same time it is a separate plot that can be resolved. This time though the primary plot starts with the introduction of a character to help fight the Otherness and the plot doesn't move off from the One and the plans made by the Otherness the entire time.Weezy is Jack's friend from his childhood days. While I haven't ready the Secret Histories or the Young Jack stories yet, I would imagine that Weezy is a recurring character in those novels. Weezy is a conspiracy theorist of the extreme type; combined with her ability to remember everything she's read and seen, she sees connections that show the Order's plans. It is these connections that put Weezy's life is at risk when she links the Order to the 9-11 attacks. Fortunately Jack came back into her life shortly before things hit the fan for her and saves her life. Since she knows so many of the pieces but not the bigger picture, Jack lets her in on the secret history and even gives to her the Compendium. Jack hopes her ability to remember everything will make sense of the Compendium. The story continues with the development and culmination of one of the side plans of The One, something that has a huge impact on Jack and his team of helpers.Unfortunately I would have to say that if you are not current with your Repairman Jack reading, this is not the book to start. We're pretty much at the tail end of the series. GROUND ZERO is exactly the book that long-time readers will love because it moves so many things forward and is creating a bigger impact. New readers will be lost. Trust me, go back to THE TOMB and read all of the books in order. I would also recommend reading them back-to-back. Just binge read them all. You'll catch many of the nuances that I've missed over the years.
    • 4/5
      What if the 9/11 attacks were not purely an act of terror against the US but rather part of an elaborate operation to gain access to an unspeakable evil buried beneath the foundation of the World Trade Center? This concept is the driving force behind the 13th book of F. Paul Wilson’s Repairman Jack series in which Jack must unravel these subterranean secrets to save those he loves most.I was not sure if I was ready for this particular very real factual event to be blended with a work of fiction, but I was able to get through it and it was not as uncomfortable as I thought it might be. For those of you who have made it this far in the series, rest assured many of your questions will FINALLY be answered.
    • 4/5
      I expected to be pissed off about the whole Truther thing, but it's fine. The Arabs still flew planes into the buildings, but there was more to it (none of it involving Bush, Cheney or Jews). Finally we get a lot of explanations for long-standing mysteries in the series, and more to come. The ending is a cliff-hanger, so have the next book handy!
    • 3/5
      Wilson is bringing together all the elements for the big finale of the series, two books hence. In this volume, he brings in two more players, an ally and an enemy, presumably from the young adult Repairman Jack novel, which I've not read. The weakness of this novel is that it reads like a chapter, rather than a story that stands on its own.
    • 3/5
      Ground Zero is the 12th installment in the Repairman Jack series about Jack, an "off the grid" Repairman who fixes situations not appliances. With his friend Abe supplying him an arsenal of weapons, Jack looks after those who need help. Pragmatic Jack also runs across some increasing unusual situations and begins to believe in the paranormal. As the series progresses, Jack experiences more and more unusual situations and learns more of the "secret history" of the world, which revolves around a battle between two supernatural entities. I have been a fan of this series forever. However, the last few books in the series have concentrated more upon the cosmic struggle and less upon Jack. I don't enjoy them nearly as much now. But my opinion might be biased...I've got a thing for the tough-guy Jacks: Jack Bauer, Jack Reacher, Repairman Jack. They are all action heroes with smarts, humor, and finesse. I want to follow their exploits, and there were just not enough action-man exploits in Ground Zero for my taste.
    • 4/5
      Jack's one of my favorite characters. He's heroic but human, principled but practical. If you haven't met Jack, let me introduce you. He's a fixer - in fact, he goes by Repairman Jack - who's off the grid. He's got a way with fixing problems no one else can solve using a mix of trickery and violence and justice. But he's also at the center of a conflict between ancient adversaries from outside our existence. Wilson's winding up the series with two more books after this one, so Ground Zero focuses on the grand plot line rather than the individual fix. He's been building to this for a while in the series, so that should be no surprise. I recommend these pretty much every chance I get, but start at the beginning to get the full effect!
    • 4/5
      The antepenultimate Repairman Jack novel. The Adversary's agents' plans are advancing, hastening the takeover of Earth by the Otherness. Meanwhile, Jack reconnects with some old friends, one of whom has been investigating 9/11 and other conspiracy theories--coming very close to the truth of the Secret History.As Wilson says in his foreword, this is an episode in a larger story, not a complete story in and of itself. The immediate action wraps up fairly well, but the book is necessarily open-ended.I'm in this for the long haul, and have been reading the earlier works that the timeline in the back mention as being important to the ongoing story. Nevertheless, I was a lot happier when these still appeared to be loosely-connected tales of Jack confronting weird stuff in the course of--and along with--his normal fix-it work. At one point in this one, Jack picks up a John Macdonald book with the thought that Travis McGee's approach is much like his own fixing. I'm going to have to look for those books.