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02.20: Roger Hobbs
2013-01-15 00:37:56| Powells Books Events Calendar
Dark, intelligent, and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman (Knopf) announces the arrival of an exciting and distinctive new 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 identity — or even if he's still alive — he's in his mid-30s 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. 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 debut thriller that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers.
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