Repairman Jack

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Repairman Jack is a character in a series of novels by F. Paul Wilson. This series is known as The Repairman Jack Series.

Repairman Jack is a fixer, a man outside of society who can be hired (cash only!) to fix situations. Jack has a girlfriend named Gia DiLauro, a commercial artist with a young daughter named Vicky. Jack's best friend is an arms dealer and information specialist Abe Grossman who runs his secret armory out of the Isher Sports Shop. Jack is a diehard Manhattanite and is constantly fighting off his father's efforts to relocate him to work in Florida.

For fun, Jack walks at night, alone, in Central Park. If he sees hucksters robbing tourists of money, he will on occasion rip them off, and return what was owed to the tourists, the remainder he donates to a youth sports team. Sometimes toughs will attempt to rob him, however, Jack goes everywhere armed and will usually rob the robbers, again donating the money to a youth sports team.

Jack began this work as a teenager when a sadistic prankster destroyed his neighbor's lawn. Jack helped his neighbor patch up the lawn and set a trap for the prankster, "fixing" him. He was paid fifty dollars and was hooked since. He hides his identity from the government by not voting, paying taxes or doing anything else that will leave a paper trail. He advertises his services strictly by word of mouth and via an anonymous website.

It is also stated that Jack's mother was killed when a malevolent delinquent dropped a cinder block onto her moving car from an overpass. Jack found him and "fixed" him.

Jack has had his share of encounters with the a malevolent force known as the Otherness. Jack's first encounters were in the form of creatures called rakoshi that tried to kill Vicky (in The Tomb).

Repairman Jack has appeared in the following novels:

The Tomb (1984) [re-released in 1998 with updated cultural references, and again in 2004 in a limited edition under its original title, Rakoshi, by Borderlands Press]
Legacies (1998)
Conspiracies (1999)
All the Rage (2000)
Hosts (2001)
The Haunted Air (2002)
Gateways (2003)
Crisscross (2004)
Infernal (2005)
Harbingers (2006)
Bloodline (2007) (announced)
Untitled books (TBA)
Nightworld (1992, though his appearance here happens after all others - updated Borderlands Press edition released in June '06)