Repairman Jack Books in Order
Part ofF Paul Wilson Books in OrderBrowse the Repairman Jack books in order by F. Paul Wilson, with summaries, reading order, crossover notes, and guidance on where to start.
Last updated: June 11, 2026
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Publication Order
32 books
The Tomb
by F Paul Wilson
1984
Repairman Jack, who fixes problems rather than appliances, is hired to recover a stolen necklace carrying an ancient curse. The job turns deadly when Bengali demons and a threat to Gia's daughter Vicky force Jack into a fight he cannot sidestep.
Nightworld
by F Paul Wilson
1992
The end begins when the sun rises late and holes open in the world. Jack, Glaeken, and a desperate handful of allies face the Otherness in Wilson's apocalyptic finale to both the Adversary Cycle and Repairman Jack.
Conspiracies
by F. Paul Wilson
1998
Conspiracies
by F Paul Wilson
1998
When conspiracy theorist Melanie Ehler disappears, Jack follows the trail to a convention full of people who think the world is run by hidden powers. For once, the wildest theory in the room may still be too small.
Legacies
by F. Paul Wilson
1998
Legacies
by F Paul Wilson
1998
Dr. Alicia Clayton wants a house from her past torn down, but everyone hired for the job winds up dead. Jack takes the fix and finds that the building is guarding a secret people are willing to kill for.
All the Rage
by F Paul Wilson
2000
A new designer drug promises confidence and edge without addiction, until it starts unleashing murderous rage. Jack digs into who made it and why, and finds a fix with body bags at the end of it.
Hosts
by F. Paul Wilson
2001
Hosts
by F Paul Wilson
2001
Kate seeks out the brother she barely knows when her sister Jeannette changes after experimental brain-tumor treatment. Jack discovers a mutated virus with plans of its own, and stopping it may be beyond ordinary medicine.
The Haunted Air
by F. Paul Wilson
2002
The Haunted Air
by F Paul Wilson
2002
A house in Astoria seems to be haunted by the ghost of a little girl abducted decades earlier from Brooklyn stables. Jack takes the case and finds that freeing the dead may require untangling a very old crime.
Gateways
by F. Paul Wilson
2003
Gateways
by F Paul Wilson
2003
Jack heads to Florida when he learns his estranged father is in a coma after a car accident. What waits there is a nest of strange deaths, eerie lights, and a young woman named Semelee who senses Jack is special.
Crisscross
by F. Paul Wilson
2004
Crisscross
by F Paul Wilson
2004
An elderly woman hires Jack to find her missing son, a search that leads into the powerful and sinister Dormentalist Church. To get answers, Jack has to step inside a cult built to crush enemies and hide its real agenda.
Infernal
by F. Paul Wilson
2005
Infernal
by F Paul Wilson
2005
Jack reunites with his brother Tom for what looks like a treasure hunt off Bermuda. The brothers find something much stranger than wreck-diving riches, and their shaky relationship does not make the danger any easier.
Harbingers
by F Paul Wilson
2006
What starts as a favor for a worried uncle, a missing teenage girl, pulls Jack into a chain of events that feels anything but random. Old allies gather as the hidden war behind Jack's life moves into the open.
The Last Rakosh
by F Paul Wilson
2006
At a traveling carnival, Jack and his friends come across evidence that a rakosh may still exist. For a man who thought he had wiped them out for good, that is very bad news.
Bloodline
by F. Paul Wilson
2007
Bloodline
by F Paul Wilson
2007
Jack looks into a mother's fears about the older man dating her teenage daughter and finds something far worse than an ordinary creep. The case pushes him closer to the truth about who he is and why the hidden war wants him.
By the Sword
by F. Paul Wilson
2008
By the Sword
by F Paul Wilson
2008
Jack is hired to recover a legendary katana stolen from the Hiroshima Peace Museum. The job brings in a Japanese cult, Yakuza muscle, and old enemies already circling the same blade.
Ground Zero
by F. Paul Wilson
2009
Ground Zero
by F Paul Wilson
2009
Weezy Connell starts fitting together the hidden truth behind 9/11, and that makes her a target. Jack follows her into conspiracy culture and discovers that every public theory is smaller than the real horror.
Jack
by F Paul Wilson
2009
Teenage Jack and his friends Weezy and Eddie find a ritual murder victim in the Pine Barrens beside an ancient artifact. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes that the woods hold older and darker secrets than anyone guessed.
Fatal Error
by F. Paul Wilson
2010
Fatal Error
by F Paul Wilson
2010
Munir Habib's family has been kidnapped, and the people holding them know exactly how to control him. Jack steps in to help, but the job collides with his role in the war to protect the Lady.
The Dark at the End
by F. Paul Wilson
2011
The Dark at the End
by F Paul Wilson
2011
Jack is finally ready to move directly against Rasalom, just as Glaeken's time is running out. The cosmic war tightens, alliances shift, and the endgame stops feeling far away.
The Last Christmas
by F. Paul Wilson
2019
The Last Christmas
by F Paul Wilson
2019
Set between *Ground Zero* and *Fatal Error*, this late Jack novel sends him after an escaped hybrid creature while also guarding an ancient healing object. Both jobs tie into stranger forces than Jack expects, and the city feels increasingly out of tune.
Series background & context
Repairman Jack is not a handyman, and Wilson enjoys making that clear right away. Jack fixes situations. He helps people who have run out of normal options, usually people who cannot go to the police or do not trust what the police will do. He lives off the grid, pays cash, avoids official records, and runs his life by his own rules. That setup gives the series its engine: every book starts with a problem, and Jack is the guy willing to walk into it.
At first the novels feel like sharp, grimy New York thrillers with a weird edge. The Tomb sends Jack after a stolen necklace tied to ancient Rakoshi. Legacies gives him a haunted house and a doctor with secrets. Conspiracies, All the Rage, Hosts, and The Haunted Air keep widening his world while still letting each book stand on its own as a case. Wilson is very good at this part of the series. A missing person, a bad drug, a ghost, a strange infection, a cult, all of it can become a Jack fix.
What makes the books more than a run of adventures is Jack himself. He is capable, stubborn, suspicious of systems, and often funnier than he means to be. He is also more emotionally tied to people than his lone-wolf image suggests. Gia and Vicky matter. Abe matters. Julio matters. Over time the series becomes as much about the family and network Jack builds around himself as it is about the enemies he takes on.
And the enemies get bigger. What begins as urban trouble slowly plugs into Wilson's Secret History of the World. By the time you reach books like Gateways, Crisscross, Harbingers, Bloodline, By the Sword, Ground Zero, and The Dark at the End, Jack is no longer just handling bad actors in the city. He is part of a cosmic shadow war, whether he likes it or not.
That shift is one reason readers argue about the best reading order. Some prefer the early, more self-contained fixes. Others love the later myth arc. Both approaches work because Wilson keeps Jack grounded. Even when the stakes become apocalyptic, Jack still thinks like a man solving the next concrete problem in front of him.
If you want a series that can move from street crime to supernatural horror without losing its hardboiled center, Repairman Jack is Wilson's signature achievement. The books are fast, pulpy, and surprisingly emotional under the surface. They also fit into the Adversary Cycle, which means Jack's world keeps getting larger the longer you stay in it.
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