By the Sword: A Repairman Jack novel
Written by F. Paul Wilson
Narrated by Dick Hill
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About this audiobook
By the Sword takes up the adventures of Repairman Jack directly after Bloodline. Jack is hired to find a legendary Japanese sword, a katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum and brought to New York City. Central characters include the members of a weird Japanese cult, a young Japanese businessman and his three Yakuza bodyguards, plus Hank Thompson, the Kicker cult leader from Bloodline. The cult, the businessman, the Yakuza, and the Kickers are looking for the sword as well.
Also in the mix is the pregnant teenager carrying a child, loaded with abnormal DNA, who will be a decisive force in the cosmic shadow war raging behind the scenes. She becomes a pawn in the game, hunted by both sides. Followinghis usual m.o.,Jack maneuvers all sides into a bloody melee from which he plans to waltz away with the fabled katana. Of course, when things don't go as planned, Jack must improvise (and he hates to improvise). By the Sword takes F. Paul Wilson's trademark breakneck pacing and interweaving storylines to a new level.
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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Reviews for By the Sword
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Entertaining read, original protagonist. Good cross between trad detective and supernatural story. Will be back for another ride with Jack
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I really like Jack as a character. He's becoming one of my favorites of all time. But I'm feeling with every book, Wilson gives us fewer and fewer Jack chapters. I feel like he's just another character in an ensemble cast. I miss him. My other character problem is that we get more Dawn chapters. She bugs the crap out of me. It's getting hard to rate these books on their own since the series is coming to an end and the books all run into one another. But I hope I can get to know Jack again before everything wraps up.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5One of the best in the series. Nice to know Wilson can still pull it off. Lord of the Rings meets Pulp Fiction.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Repairman Jack stories are now getting to the interesting point where the plot lines from one novel are bleeding through to the next. This helps build the excitement for the forthcoming, new and revised edition of NIGHTWORLD. It also helps to break the pattern that the Repairman Jack novels have been taking. Now things are happening and continuing to happen across books.BY THE SWORD continues Jack's interactions with the Kickers movement and with Dawn Pickering from BLOODLINE. Additionally he is hired by a Japanese man to find a sword that was stolen from the Hiroshima Museum. This brings its own mishaps as both Yakuza gangsters and a mystical order of monks called the Kakureta Kao are after the sword also. Mix in some significant interaction with the old man who has been following Jack and you have a strong story that should please all Repairman Jack fans.New readers will most likely be lost if they start reading here and are highly recommended to go back to the beginning of the series and start there. I would have liked to see more of Gia and her daughter Vicky but at the same time, there is only so much that Wilson can squeeze into each book. And as the series comes down to its end, I imagine there will be enough threads being tied up to keep me very happy.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ancient katana from Black Wind has been stolen, and Jack is hired to retrieve it. In the process, he runs into the Japanese cult believed destroyed in Hiroshima. They, the Kickers, and the Adversary are all on the move.This close to the end-game, the plots are not wrapping up as neatly. This is addictive stuff, even when it's not fully satisfying.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For those familiar with Repairman Jack, By The Sword will be a familiar friend. Wilson is working his way to the conclusion of the secret history of the world, and this volume pushes further toward that end. In fact, Wilson has put together a roadmap for the rest of the story, which he gives in an endnote here.For those not familiar with Repairman Jack, he's an independent agent off the grid, earning a living by "fixing" broken situations for clients. Part of the appeal of these stories is in how Jack creatively resolves the problems presented him. But Jack is much more than that. It turns out that there's a conflict between, well, Evil and Indifferent entities in which the Earth plays a small part. But Jack's a big part of the conflict here, and as the series unfolds, the reader discovers more and more about this secret history. Recommended, but this is a story arc covering a number of books. Wikipedia or F. Paul Wilson's website has the complete list of works in the series with the proper order. Start at the beginning, if you can.