6/1/2023 0 Comments Ghostman by roger hobbsStraight out of the gate, Hobbs has mastered the essentials of a contemporary thriller: a noirlike tone, no-nonsense prose and a hero with just enough personality to ensure he doesn’t come off as an amoral death machine. Jack is a superb sleuth and an entertaining explainer of the variety of ways one can torment or kill somebody (a jar of nutmeg can be terrifyingly deadly, it turns out), and Hobbs ensures he’s in a heap of trouble fast: Marcus is watching closely, and Jack is also in the cross hairs of an FBI agent and a rival criminal, the Wolf, who's guarded by Aryan Brotherhood thugs. The clock’s ticking: The bundle is a “federal payload” containing a packet of indelible ink set to explode in 48 hours. But his botch of a big-money bank heist in Kuala Lumpur five years ago means he owes a favor to one of those honchos, Marcus, who’s looking for a bag of cash that disappeared with a gunman when a casino robbery went sour. He’s a free agent with a full armory of skills that help him kill a man, cross borders, take on entirely new personalities and be smugly unimpressed with criminal overlords. Jack Delton, the hero of this novel-and, presumably, more to come-is a “ghostman," an expert at disappearing and helping others disappear. An ice-in-his-veins fixer trawls Atlantic City for a missing bundle of cash in this watertight debut thriller.
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