Vault into the world of Saint Jack, ex-firefighter and potential savior. Jack's is a world of visions, soul-flights, angels, evil, and goodness. Stand with him on top of the universe and fall with him into hell as he travels toward his destiny and his attempt to save the whole world.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Saint Jack and Toad by Philip J. Carraher,
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This review is from: Saint Jack and Toad: Third Angel of the Apocalypse (Paperback)
Really enjoyed this book. It's rare to find a book that combines the fast read enjoyment of a Stephen King novel with some depth of thought. Imagine, an intelligent fantasy?! Jack Cassidy (Saint Jack) is a NYC firefighter who loses his own family in a tragic fire. He's so distraught he wants to kill himself but is kept from doing it by the sudden appearance of a vision that tells him he must live in order to save the world from a growing threatening evil. This he agrees to do and so his adventures begin. Along the way he's helped by a pair of angels (who appear to him in the form of rats in his basement) and by a talisman that grants him great powers (invisibility, etc.) All of this is wonderfully written with a good deal of imagery. In each scene the reader feels like he/she is right there. And the book gives you plenty to think about after you put it down. Apocalypse soon? Maybe, and it might be us humans who bring it down upon ourselves. Scary.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book But Buy the Infinity Reprint Instead,
This review is from: Saint Jack and Toad: Third Angel of the Apocalypse (Paperback)
"Saint Jack" is a great urban fantasy but the other published book is superior to this edition. The new edition has a larger type font and so is easier to read and contains great drawings which this edition doesn't have. So you should buy that instead of this. I happen to have both books being a big fan of this particular author.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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"Adventure with Intelligence",
By A Customer
This review is from: Saint Jack and Toad: Third Angel of the Apocalypse (Paperback)
From "Curled Up With A Good Book (curled up.com)":Five Stars (Highest Rating) Jack Cassidy (the "Saint Jack" of the title) is a New York City firefighter. The book opens with a vivid scene in which Jack is attempting to rescue a young child from a raging fire: "And he'd better find her fast! Heat! He could feel the beast nearby,its vast appetite for destruction coming closer. The fire scared him but it was the heavy smoke that made him fear for the child's life at the moment. Nine times out of ten it was the fire's breath and not the fire that killed. Is the girl still alive? Maybe not. Not in this...Smoke concealed everything. The fire began to perform for him, presenting him with spirals of flame curling along the ceiling. Chilling grins of flame which his sight could discern despite the billowing fog." Jack does save the young girl and then, in perverse irony, that same night, driving home, he is shocked to discover that his own house is ablaze, and that within that blaze are the cremated bodies of his own wife and child. (The novel) is a love story as well, for Jack never fully recovers from the loss of his wife and daughter. His love is too great. A short while after their deaths, he walks to their graves with the intent of killing himself. He is stopped...by the sudden appearance of a holy vision, a Lady, who tells him he must live in order to save humankind from a growing evil that would summon the "Third Angel of the Apocalypse" and destroy the world. ...Most of the action takes place on the streets of New York City's coarse Lower East Side...The novel is filled with characters from those hostile streets, prostitutes, pimps, youth gangs, professional gangsters and runaway teens. This is a novel as gritty and New York City streetwise as it is philosophical and thought provoking... ...The "Toad" of the title is a runaway boy who lives by his wits and by street-performing his magic tricks for donations on the sidewalks of New York City. He and another recent runaway, Susan, are thrown inadvertantly into the path of the evil that Jack is seeking to find and destroy. Susan, who ran away from the threat of molestation by her stepfather, now has her life threatened by circumstance and Toad and Jack must risk their own lives to try to save her. ...fast paced action, a novel of faith and redemption, of good versus evil,an adventure-filled tale that stretches out to explore the nature of things, of greed and even of God...There is much magic in this book, not the least of which is Carraher's superior prose... ... [website]
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