Bloodline

Repairman Jack, Book 11

By: F. Paul Wilson

Narrated by: Dick Hill

It starts off simply enough. (Doesn't it always?) Jack has been on hiatus since the tragic events in Harbingers. With his beloved Gia's encouragement he dips his toe back into the fix-it pool.

Christy Pickering's 18-year-old daughter is dating Jerry Bethlehem, a man twice her age. Christy sensed something shady and sinister about him, so she hired a private investigator to look into his past. But the PI isn't returning her calls. Will Jack find out why?

Jack learns there's a very good reason for the unreturned calls: The PI is dead, victim of a bizarre water-torture murder.

As Jack delves into Jerry Bethlehem's past, he finds connections between Bethlehem and the Creighton Institute. The Institute, a government-funded facility, is researching a newly discovered and frightening variation on human DNA. Jack learns that Bethlehem is not the man he pretends to be.

Who - and what - Jerry Bethlehem really is will have a devastating effect on Jack's life and future.

And as the bodies pile up, Jack finds another piece of the puzzle about his own identity and why he's been drafted into a cosmic shadow war.

©2008 F. Paul Wilson (P)2007 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

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Don't start with this late entry in the series!

I'm a big, big fan of the Repairman Jack series and have waited for years for the books to be available on Audio. Why the publishers have to start with the two latest entries in the the series is anyone's guess, and too, too bad. The first five or six Repairman Jack books are much less serialized and the story can be picked up at any time, but the final entries really require some dedication and to be read in order.

I've never much cared for Dick Hill as a narrator although his voice is bland enough not to be a major issue. In this case his thick Rust Belt accent is totally inappropriate for Jersey-born Jack and even worse for Iowa-bred Gia, but the production values are fair and the book moves along fine. Still, overall disappointing to true diehard RJ fans.

I truly hope that this confusing offering doesn't turn off potential RJ readers, who should really go back to "The Tomb" and get the story from the beginning.

WORST. PERFORMANCE. EVER.

Terrible, terrible terrible performance.
The voices he does for the characters are awful.
I really can’t express how much Dick Hill has ruined this book for me. I dread slogging through the next one.
For some reason he can read the descriptions in a more normal voice, but every time he does a character’s line, he MUMBLES the last word of EVERY line.
Obviously I’m not the only one that feels this way. They switched back to Price for the later books.
Please get this book(and the next one- I’m already dreading it) re done by Christopher Price.

new narrator hurts the story.

new voice hurts story. few glitches in recording. used to jack sounding like the voice in all his previous books up to this point.

Awful Narrator!

Title says it all. I don't like this narrator at all. I want Chris Price back!

<NOT HIS BEST WORK > Far from it!

Can someone tell me how to spell Tedious? I read his books several years ago in order, very impressive. Although I didn’t read them in there proper order This time I thought I would be able to listen to them, which I did, and it was quite entertaining.