"Serves up the occult thrills fans of Wilson's series have come to
expect and tantalizes with the promise of more surprises to come."
--Publishers Weekly on By the Sword
"Bloody, sordid, and apocalyptic but, thanks to Jack's can-do attitude,
plenty of fun." --Kirkus Reviews on By the Sword
On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the
twin towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a
button. As he waits for the south tower to collapse, he thinks: The vast
majority will blame the collapse on the crazy Arabs who hijacked the
planes and the Islamic extremists who funded them--the obvious choice. A
few will notice inconsistencies and point fingers elsewhere, blaming the
government or Big Oil or some other powerful but faceless entity. No
one--absolutely no one--will guess the truth behind the who and why of
this day.
Years later, someone does. Repairman Jack's childhood friend Weezy
Connell (the genius girl from Jack: Secret Histories) has started
fitting together the pieces of the puzzle and anonymously posting her
conclusions on the Web. But she can't stay anonymous forever. Someone is
after her. Jack becomes involved in her troubles and in the paranoid
mazes of the 9/11 Truth Movement, where conspiracy theories point in
every direction.
They're all wrong. The truth is stranger, darker, and more evil than
anyone can imagine. It involves the cosmic shadow war into which Jack
has been drafted. And if the plot behind it--millennia in the
planning--succeeds, it will forever change life on this Earth.
