Repairman Jack fixes problems, the kind the police can't or won't solve. Jack's current ex-girlfriend needs his help as her aunt has disappeared without a trace in the middle of the night. In the meantime, an Indian man comes to him needing his grandmother's necklace found before morning. She is dying and must have this rare heirloom back. There is something fishy with both these cases but Jack figures it out.

I love Jack. He's got so many last names it's a wonder he keeps them straight. He's an honest, upstanding guy who knows that sometimes the bad guy deserves to die... slowly. He has humour and a flippancy that perhaps hides his shyness and he's witty; everything I love in a hero.'

Gia breaks up with him when she finds out what he does. Can she love someone who kills? The cases he tackles are brutal, scary, supernatural, and fun. There's never a dull moment around and Jack's full of derring-do. ( )

La India, 1857. El capitán de fusileros, sir Albert Westphalen, destinado a una pequeña guarnición en Bengala, cree haber encontrado la respuesta a sus acuciantes problemas financieros: asaltar el templo de Kali bajo el pretexto de perseguir rebeldes amotinados, y hacerse con sus increíbles riquezas. Pero el templo y sus tesoros tienen guardianes, y no todos son humanos...
Nueva York, hoy en día. Jack el reparador se encarga de arreglar cosas, pero no es la persona a la que acudiría con una tostadora rota: bajo la fachada de un negocio de reparación de electrodomésticos, Jack repara injusticias, llegando a menudo allí donde la ley no puede. Vive al margen de la sociedad por convicción y es un hombre violento por temperamento, pero su inteligencia y su capacidad de entrar en acción están al servicio de los casos que considera honorables.
Ahora Jack es requerido por un diplomático indio para investigar el robo de un extraño collar, y al mismo tiempo su ex novia, Gia, pide su ayuda para encontrar a un pariente desaparecido. Su apellido es Westphalen, y puede haber sido víctima de una maldición ancestral... que no se detendrá allí. Ambos casos están entrelazados, y según se interna en ellos, Jack el Reparador comenzará a preguntarse si puede haber fuerzas que están más allá de sus habilidades de reparación.

Pretty good... a book about monsters from India and revenge and super human normal Repairman Jack. A "good read" - i'm not used to that. Why is called "The Tomb"? ( )

I devoured novels like this back in the 80s but somehow never read this one. It's a slightly silly, not really that scary, but enormously entertaining horror yarn with a likeable 2 fisted hero, a decent supporting cast and some really fun monsters. I suspect this version has been revised to bring some of the cultural references up to date but there's no getting away from that great B-movie feeling that so many 80s horror novels had.
Definitely looking forward to more of the same. ( )

First of the Repairman Jack series. Jack lives "off the grid" and works to fix problems that others cannot, usually the police. He is drawn into two cases, which quickly become intertwined: the theft of a necklace of a UN diplomat's mother and the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend's spinster aunt. Involving the desecration of a Bengalese temple and rakoshi, retribution is the theme here. A bit far fetched, but Jack rules. ( )