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    The Dark at the End
    The Dark at the End
    The Dark at the End
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Dark at the End

    Written by F. Paul Wilson

    Narrated by Christopher Price

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    “Repairman Jack has got to be one of the greatest characters ever.… When all things start pointing to the end of humanity, Jack’s the guy to turn to.” —RT Book Reviews

    “A riveting supernatural thriller.… Wilson gives his multilayered plot an invigorating aura of cosmic creepiness as he deftly weaves together subplots and themes that have been snaking their way through the past dozen novels.” —Publishers Weekly

    Bound by his promise to the dying former immortal, Glaeken, Jack has refrained from making any direct moves against his arch-enemy, Rasalom. But things have changed, so there’s nothing holding Jack in check any longer. Jack is healing at an accelerated rate—much like Glaeken did when he was immortal. This must mean that Glaeken’s time is almost up, and when he dies, Jack will take his place.

    Rasalom continues to plot against the Lady. Twice she has died and, amazingly, returned; a third time and she will be truly gone, leaving a clear path for the Otherness to infiltrate this reality. But Ernst Drexler, formerly Rasalom’s go-to guy for logistical support, fears he will be left out in the cold when the Change, the final darkness, comes. He forms an uneasy alliance with Jack, who is preparing to face their old enemy.

    Meanwhile, Dawn Pickering is searching for her supposedly dead baby. The trail leads her to a mansion in a remote Long Island coastal town, where she discovers a terrifying truth she could have never imagined.

    Now the stage is set for Jack’s massive assault on Rasalom. Jack knows he’s got just one shot. But it’s not just a matter of taking out Rasalom; he also must retrieve Dawn’s child and minimize collateral damage. So, he comes up with a foolproof plan.

    But fools are always with us.…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    ISBN9781469267586
    The Dark at the End
    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
      Well, I didn't see some of that coming. I should have, but I didn't. I still feel like a lot of the stuff from Jack's past is being shoehorned into the present. I mean, considering all the weird shit that supposedly happened to Jack as a kid, I'm surprised he was so resistant to the weirdness he encountered as an adult. Whatevs. We're almost done now. Time to read about the end of the world...
    • 5/5
      Good read! At first I was disappointed with no fix it job, but turns good with the otherness story. Great ending, suspenseful.
    • 4/5
      The last Repairman Jack book. It is like saying goodbye to an old friend. 15 books is quite an investment between the author and the reader. True, Jack will make an appearance in next years finale to the Adversary Cycle (NightWorld) and will also appear in some prequels. Was it a fitting finish? Hard to say. I am still trying to decide. There were parts I liked as well as some I didn't. I guess I can say that about the whole series. Especially the last several books, some of which almost seemed like throwaways, as the story slowly moved along with little actually happening. Maybe having originally written the Adversary Cycle years ago and now having to merge the Repairman Jack books into the Secret History of the World mythology was not the best idea? I did not read the Adversary books as written originally except for the first two so don't know how many changes there are between them and the revised versions. I will be reading the heavily revised Nightworld though to see how the story finally does end. What I wonder though is it because I truly want to know or is it that after 15 books in this series and 4 others from the Adversary Cycle (the Tomb is in both series so I only counted it once) I just want closure without caring how it actually ends? Only time will tell.
    • 4/5
      This is the last Repairman Jack book. I hesitate to call it a novel, since for the past six or seven books, the RJ saga resembles less a series of novels and more a continuing saga, each book ending in a cliffhanger. This book ends in a cliffhanger, too, and the saga will dovetail into Wilson's "Adversary Cycle". The final book of the Adversary Cycle came out in 1992, but a new revision of it will be coming out in a few months, and will cap the storylines.

      Repaiman Jack is a resourceful guy who lives off the grid: no last name, no social security number, no legal existence. He's kind of a freelance vigilante, helping out people who are being conned or threatened. Often in his adventures, he takes on paranormal threats, all related to "The Otherness", an interdimensional, Lovecraftian wellspring of horror that wants to take over our dimension. The Otherness is inimical to life as we know it. Jack gradually comes to realize that he's being groomed as Earth's champion against The Otherness. So what starts out as a more earthbound story about a kickass vigilante becomes a high stakes existential horror/adventure story.

      The books in the series run the gamut from excellent to so-so, but the series as a whole is very much worth reading, and this volume is a page turner of nail-biting suspense. My advice? Start with "The Tomb" and move on from there.
    • 4/5
      Billed as the last Repairman Jack book, this isn't really, not quite. (And not just because there are prequels in the works.) It does draw together the different, ongoing threads, but it's not a conclusion.Not entirely satisfying.