The post- Harbingers installments of Jack’s tale have become what the French call a roman fleuve-literally, a “river novel,” with one story flowing from volume to volume. (See “The Secret History of the World” at the end of this book for the sequence.) Along the way we’ll be reprinting the remainder of the Adversary Cycle, synching the releases of The Touch, Reborn, and Reprisal with Jack’s timeline. Two more Repairman Jack novels remain, the last ending just before Nightworld begins. You may have noticed that By the Sword began shortly after Bloodline, and Ground Zero picks up a couple of months after that. That, I’m afraid, is no longer the case.Īs I move people and objects into place and set the stage for the events that will tip all of humanity into Nightworld, the final chapter, this sort of incremental closure has become impossible. I’ve always kept longer story arcs running from book to book, but I used to be able to bring each installment to a distinct conclusion. (There’s a highfalutin phrase.)Īnd if you’ve been following along, you’ve noticed that the recent novels do not tie up as neatly as the earlier ones. I’ve always said this would be a closed-end series, that I would not run Jack into the ground, that I had a big story to tell and would lower the curtain after telling it. That’s right: I’ve decided to end the series with number fifteen (though Jack will make his final appearance in Nightworld). You hold the pen-penultimate Repairman Jack novel.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001-Fiction. Repairman Jack (Fictitious character)-Fiction. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. * See “The Secret History of the World” (page 367)

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