I originally got into reading FPW because I had a somewhat fond memory of watching "The Keep" at night, on the mess deck of my step-father's DDG. The mess deck was dark, it smelled funny, the TV was small, and the various conversations going around were low, but the susurration added to the ambiance. When I saw the movie again a few years later, I realized I liked it. I saw The Keep paperback sometime after that, picked it up, realized that it was way better than the movie, and quickly read the entire Adversary cycle. I must have read the books at least two or three more times because The Tomb and especially Nightworld were so freakin' awesome. I picked up a used copy of Black Wind one day and after reading it, I was completely blown away. It became my favorite non-Adversary cycle FPW book and I had read a few other of his medical thrillers, which I liked, but did not have the same impact as Black Wind or the Adversary cycle. When I discovered that FPW was writing Repairman Jack books (I started with All the Rage and worked my way backwards and forwards from there) I immersed myself in the joy of the Adversary cycle once again. When I got to By the Sword, I thought, "Yes! Black Wind is back!" I'm currently re-reading the RPJ series and the Adversary cycle so I can read the expanded Nightworld for the first time. I re-read Black Wind last year and it was just as potent the second time around as it was the first. Black Wind is easily one of FPW's best works.
This post was last modified: 05-07-2013, 11:06 PM by revrasputin.