Cold City

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
A first installment in a new prequel trilogy traces the early career of self-styled "fix-it" man Repairman Jack, who after moving to New York City establishes relationships with Julio and the Mikulski brothers while investigating a murder, launching a passionate affair and dismantling a child sex slave operation.

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Back to the good stuff. submitted by eknapp on December 14, 2012, 2:45pm The first of three planned Repairman Jack prequels. I had expected three stories but it's clearly going to be one story in three books. By the end of this one, Jack has made an assortment of enemies--the Order, a human trafficker, a group of bloodthirsty Dominican landscapers, a skeevy con artist, and a small cell of Gambino mobsters--not one of whom has been sorted out.

Cold City begins shortly after Jack abandons his family and drops out of college to find his fortune in the Big Apple. We meet a few characters who appear in the main series (Abe, Drexler, Julio, Vinny Donuts, a Septimus goon named Kris, a woman with a dog) and a number of important characters that I don't recall. I can only assume they're Red Shirts.

It's all about Jack learning the ropes. We see his introduction to gun culture, learning how to stay off the government's radar and invest his ill-gotten gains, and stretching his legs in a couple of early fixes.

Cold City felt--WAS--incomplete, but it's a lot closer to the juicy fun of the early Repairman Jack novels than to the tortured contrivance of the last few, which were completely hijacked by the Adversary series.