Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist.
When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who’s occasionally called Jack. While it’s doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true … about his true identity, or even if he’s still alive, he’s in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminal’s criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with. But within hours a private jet is flying this exceptionally experienced fixer and cleaner-upper from Seattle to New Jersey and right into a spectacular mess: one heister dead in the parking lot, another winged but on the run, the shooter a complete mystery, the $1.2 million in freshly printed bills god knows where and the FBI already waiting for Jack at the airport, to be joined shortly by other extremely interested and elusive parties. He has only forty-eight hours until the twice-stolen cash literally explodes, taking with it the wider, byzantine ambitions behind the theft. To contend with all this will require every gram of his skill, ingenuity and self-protective instincts, especially when offense and defense soon become meaningless terms. And as he maneuvers these exceedingly slippery slopes, he relives the botched bank robbery in Kuala Lumpur five years earlier that has now landed him this unwanted new assignment.
From its riveting opening pages, Ghostman effortlessly pulls the reader into Jack’s refined and peculiar world — and the sophisticated shadowboxing grows ever more intense as he moves, hour by hour, toward a constantly reimprovised solution. With a quicksilver plot, gripping prose and masterly expertise, Roger Hobbs has given us a novel that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers.
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Ghostman was an education first in learning the meaning of the title and then with regard to all the angles needing consideration when planning a heist. It held my attention throughout and I would definitely look forward to and read the author’s next book.
With all the unread books in the world, I rarely read a book twice, but I recently revisited this one because it’s just so great. I don’t want to get too much into the plot because the less you know the better, but it’s one fantastic crime novel — and an amazing first novel, at that.
A casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly sideways, despite all appearances of its intricate planning. The brain behind the operation needs to repair the damage and make it go away. He calls in an old favor from a Ghostman.
Occasionally called Jack, Ghostman lives completely off the grid and cannot be found when he doesn’t want to be. He …
Ghostman is a late addition to the growing genre of “fixer thrillers”: an awesomely competent master of extra-legal anonymity is called upon to clean up some present or imminent criminal mess on behalf of a shady person or organization (usually organized crime or government intelligence, with interchangeable ethics and work practices). NBC’s The …
It’s too bad Roger passed away at such a young age!
This is the book that got me started on crime fiction. Roger Hobbs is the best in the genre and he is only just starting his career. He has a second book that gives the back story on the characters you meet in this book.