Sibs [Hardcover]

F. Paul Wilson (Author), Phil Parks (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1991

Kelly Wade picks up twin brothers in a fashionable Manhattan hotel bar. Midway through a wild orgy, she suddenly screams and hurls herself from the window to her death. Kara, her twin sister, returns to New York to find out how and why Kelly died.

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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Dark Harvest Books; First Edition edition (November 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0913165611
• ISBN-13: 978-0913165614
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,228,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born toward the end of the Jurassic Period and raised in New Jersey where I misspent my youth playing with matches, poring over Uncle Scrooge and E.C. comics, reading Lovecraft, Matheson, Bradbury, and Heinlein, listening to Chuck Berry and Alan Freed, and watching Soupy Sales and horror movies. I sold my first story in the Cretaceous Period and have been writing ever since. (Even that dinosaur-killer asteroid couldn't stop me.)

I've written in just about every genre - science fiction, fantasy, horror, a children's Christmas book (with a monster, of course), medical thrillers, political thrillers, even a religious thriller (long before that DaVinci thing). So far I've got about 33 books and 100 or so short stories under my name in 24 languages.

THE KEEP, THE TOMB, HARBINGERS, and BY THE SWORD all appeared on the New York Times Bestsellers List. WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS won the first Prometheus Award in 1979; THE TOMB received the Porgie Award from The West Coast Review of Books. My novelette "Aftershock" received the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for short fiction. DYDEETOWN WORLD was on the young adult recommended reading lists of the American Library Association and the New York Public Library, among others (God knows why). I received the prestigious Inkpot Award from San Diego ComiCon and the Pioneer Award from the RT Booklovers Convention. I'm listed in the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America. (That plus $3 will buy you a girly coffee at Starbuck's.)

My novel THE KEEP was made into a visually striking but otherwise incomprehensible movie (screenplay and direction by Michael Mann) from Paramount in 1983. My original teleplay "Glim-Glim" first aired on Monsters. An adaptation of my short story "Menage a Trois" was part of the pilot for The Hunger series that debuted on Showtime in July 1997.

And then there's the epic saga of the Repairman Jack film. After 14 years in development hell with half a dozen writers and at least a dozen scripts, THE TOMB is finally moving toward production as "Repairman Jack" from Beacon Films and Touchstone. The plan is to make Jack a franchise character. (Gotta tell you: all the years of this has worn me out.)

I've done a few collaborations too. One with Steve Spruill on NIGHTKILL, and a bunch with Matthew J. Costello. Matt and I did world design, characters, and story arcs for Sci-Fi Channel's FTL NewsFeed, a daily newscast set 150 years in the future. An FTL NewsFeed was the first program broadcast by the new channel when it launched in September 1992. We took over scripting the Newsfeeds (the equivalent of a 4-1/2 hour movie per year) in 1994 and continued until its cancellation in December 1996.

We did script and design for MATHQUEST WITH ALADDIN (Disney Interactive - 1997) with voices by Robin Williams and Jonathan Winters, and the same for The Interactive DARK HALF for Orion Pictures, based on the Stephen King novel, but this project was orphaned when MGM bought Orion. (It's officially vaporware now.) We even wrote a stageplay, "Syzygy," which opened in St. Augustine, Florida, in March, 2000.

I'm tired of talking about myself, so I'll close by saying that I live and work at the Jersey Shore where I'm usually pounding away on a new Repairman Jack novel and haunting eBay for strange clocks and Daddy Warbucks memorabilia. (No, we don't have a cat.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, February 21, 2000

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Eric (Galveston, Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sibs (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a sit-up-and-take-note kind of book. I was halfway into the book, thinking to myself that it wasn't half bad. Then, 5 pages later, I was sweating bullets engrossed. He blind-sided me with the plot (in a good way).

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A gripping book you can't put down!!, May 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sibs (Mass Market Paperback)

Mr. Wilson is one of my favorite authors, and I must say that SIBS is my favorite book written by Mr. Wilson. I read this book several years ago and it is just too hard to put down! This unusual plot has a lot of psychological intrigue. The more you read the story, the more you're trying to figure out what's going on. Although the book is now out of print, if you can find it at a secondhand book store, I highly recommend this book. I think Mr. Wilson was at his all-time best with this book.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A TWIST IN THE TALE..., November 23, 2006

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Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sibs (Mass Market Paperback)

When Kara Wald's twin sister, Kelly, dies an untimely death, Kara returns to New York City, a city she had left ten years prior in order to return to the Pennsylvania countryside. When she arrives to claim her sister's body, Kara meets up with her old boyfriend, Rob Harris, now a detective with the New York City Police Department.

The police are inclined to view Kelly's death as a suicide, as she had leapt out of a twelfth story window in a hotel, clad only in a black garter belt and black stockings, after having sex with two strangers. Kara, however, is adamant that the circumstances under which Kelly died can be nothing short of murder. After all, the Kelly she knew was a caring nurse for whom such behavior would have been totally out of character.

Kara's search for the truth takes her to Kelly's psychiatrist, a man who seems to hold the key to Kelly's bizarre behavior prior to her death. What Kara uncovers, however, is something so sinister and evil that it will ensnare her as it had her sister. The only question is whether she will be able to escape its clutches and come to term with her own secret past.

This is an entertaining book that will keep the reader compulsively turning its pages. Although the more discerning reader may ascertain what is going on before Kara and Rob do, this will not diminish the enjoyment one will derive from this plot driven book. The tension and suspense is maintained throughout, as the plot is somewhat unusual with more than its fair share of twists and turns. Fans of the author and those who enjoy a suspenseful read will not be disappointed by this book.