Unsolicited Reviews

All The Rage by F. Paul Wilson

The 4^th in the “Repairman Jack” series. A tightly-plotted and enthralling read.

Jack’s latest job(s) involve him with very nasty gangster Milos Dragovic (an evil Serb, natch) who seems to be distributing a new, potent drug Berserk which give you a magnificent high then makes you blazingly and unreasonably angry at everything, to the point where normal people engage in the most outrageous violence. At the forefront is the clever but oily Frenchman (natch) Dr. Luc Monnet, a pharmaceutical genius, who develops Berserk from the blood of Sharkman, a major attraction at a travelling freakshow.

There’s a large cast of likeable characters, there’s Gia and Vicky in danger from Serb gangsters, there’s Jack single-handedly taking on the Otherness, there’s monsters from Jack’s past, there’s stuff moving even deeper into X-Files territory than Conspiracies—it’s all great. Wilson’s commitment to his character is further cemented. Jack, I think, has the glimmerings of an idea that there’s a big, monstrous, scary thing out there trying to take us over and he’s The One™ to stop it.

Cool stuff. Very enjoyable.

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