Black Wind

Black Wind….Or “From Here to Eternity” F. Paul Wilson Style is a dense book. This is good and bad. A superb story about four people and two nations which are inexplicably intertwined and headed towards global conflict. Black Wind ties into the Repairman Jack/Adversary Cycle (Secret History of the World) Pantheon. Wilson manages to give us history, romance, horror, and subterfuge all in one novel. However…the way he weaves the story strings the reader along. We all know what took place on December 7th, and we all know what took place on August 5th. Wilson makes no pretensions to denying that. Where he hooks us is his play on HOW it all happened and HOW it all could have been prevented. There are times when the book gets bloated show more and just seems silly….or does it. Black Winds almost reads like a Dan Simmons novel. Wilson throws in some Occult madness that inevitably leads to events in future books. There were actually a few times I expected Doc Savage to pup up around the corner because of the PULP nature of the villains. That is ok. It is Wilson’s style….and it is glorious. Be warned…some of it is rather disturbing. In the course of the novel we find sacrifice, greed and many other elements that cloud the hearts which inhabit it. Not overly long and everything fits into place. Could some fat have been trimmed from its pages. Maybe…but in the end it might just bring a tear to your eye and leave you nailed to a tree in expectation of what happens next. show less

Some folks reading this one for the first time without reference to the larger series might get a little bogged down, as it's a very epic, sweeping history of three people's interconnectedness through the build up to WW II. But I found it gripping, if only a little tiresome with the love angles and twists and recriminations between the main characters. That push/pull might seem contrived to a reader who doesn't understand the larger forces at work in the series.

The take on the build up to hostilities between Japan and the USA is quite refreshing, as most such histories or historical fictions focus on the Nazi vs. US side. Wilson's research for the books is quite impressive, as is the folding of historical events into the narrative.

4 show more 1/2 bones!!!!!
Highly Recommended, even though the love triangle is a bit tiring. show less

Historical fiction with supernatural overtones, from the author of the Repairman Jack novels. This reportedly forms the background to the 2008 RJ title, By the Sword.

Two boys grow up together in 1920s San Francisco, one white, one Japanese. Although Matsuo is summoned back to Japan by his father, their destinies remain intertwined up to and through World War II. Both have their parts to play in a future foreseen by an ancient order of Japanese monks.

A enjoyable, melodramatic page-turner.

This book is about a big bomb that is over a small village . and one day a old lady comes out and says where is the rain and the once she said that things began to change.the next day she said that she got shocked with lighting and did not say it again.but when she said make it rain more the clouds came in a cricle and shocked her so hard her mom and dad felt it on the aother side . so it was a bad chance of saying it agasin cause then she would die.then the next day she left ome and did not come back it was not good at all.after the storm was gone she noticed it was a bomb and not her so she moved back home and was happy for life. what i liked about this book was that it made me laught alot cause the book was just super funny. also i show more like it when she said let it rain again and she got shocked that was funny cause people say lighting never strikes in the same spot it is a funny book.the book also is good cause it makes you feel you are there watching it.also the book is bad too cause it had a bad end. this is why i read this book and this is why it is good and it is bad . show less