![]() FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR AWARDBEST FIRST NOVEL In a daring operation, two crooks-for-hire rob an Atlantic City casino. ![]() 150,000 first printing 5-city author tour. Ghostman by Roger Hobbs: 9780307950499 : Books FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR AWARDBEST FIRST NOVEL In a daring operation, two crooks-for-hire rob an Atlantic City casino. Though occasionally overloaded with information about criminal procedure, Hobbs’s supremely confident storytelling should leave readers eagerly anticipating his antihero’s future felonies. 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. Jack must find the survivor in the next 48 hours before an ink bomb hidden in the cash goes off, while also dealing with FBI agent Rebecca Blacker and local kingpin Harrihar “the Wolf” Turner. by Roger Hobbs ( 750 ) 11.99 Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. ![]() Marcus’s latest heist, of an armored car delivering $1.2 million to an Atlantic City casino, has gone badly, bloodily wrong, with one henchman dead and the other in hiding with the loot. Five years after a failed heist in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the protagonist, identified only by the alias “Jack Delton,” is leading an anonymous existence, but not enough of one to prevent his former boss, the Moriarty-like Marcus Hayes, from summoning him at a moment’s notice. Hobbs’s strong debut bypasses a potentially over-familiar premise, a lone-wolf crook trying to outwit the underworld’s higher powers through sheer verve. ![]()
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