It’s the dead of winter 1993 and we are dragged back
into history courtesy of author F. Paul Wilson’s fixer extraordinaire,
Repairman Jack as he unknowingly finds himself mixed up with a band of
malcontented Islamists who are hell bent on wrecking destruction on the United
States.
Fear
City drops Jack right into the heart of the 1993 plot to
blow up the World Trade Center. A mysterious shadow organization tries to steer
the terrorists away from the Trade Center and aim them in the direction of the
United Nations. Wilson does a masterful job of mixing unrelated circumstances;
the brutal murder of Jack’s former girlfriend, who earns a living as a high
priced call girl, with the real characters involved with the Trade Center plot.
Jack and friends cross paths with dirt bag Islamist
terrorists like Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad
Salameh, and Yousef’s Uncle, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed who would play mastermind
to the 9/11 attacks. Wilson also mixes in CIA Langley shooter Mir Aimal Kasi
who gunned down CIA employees just weeks prior to the WTC bombings.
Wilson does his usual
masterful job of balancing multiple storylines which pick up speed as the
inevitably crash together at breakneck speed to a powerful conclusion.
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