The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roger Hobbs
It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes two of them are dead, leaving the third, a coldblooded psychopath, to claim both the sapphires and the mysterious windfall for himself. If he disappears, he won't just be wealthy. He'll have the power to change the course of history.
His boss, Angela, isn't about to let that happen. She calls in a favor from her onetime protege: a fixer sometimes known as Jack, or more often as simply the Ghostman. Within hours he's flying halfway around the world to find her in the glimmering neon slums of Macau. Jack has no real name, no address and no fingerprints-but given the right motivation, he can make serious problems vanish. Though the two haven't talked since they botched a job six years ago, as soon as Jack's off the plane they're back together again, facing down a crime boss, a hit man and a conspiracy bigger than anything they've ever encountered and more dangerous than they could've imagined.
Their partnership-between people with no lasting relationships whatsoever-is at the very heart of a novel that will cement Roger Hobbs's status as one of our most talented crime writers.
From the Hardcover edition.
'If you enjoyed I AM PILGRIM, you'll love this' Guardian
The perfect blend of a Lee Child novel and a Quentin Tarantino film, this is the latest from the bestselling author of GHOSTMAN.
I work alone.
I may be the best thief in the world but no one will ever know a single thing about me. Well, almost no one.
A lifetime ago I had a mentor, Angela. She taught me how to be a criminal, how to run a heist.
And now, six years after she vanished and left me high and dry on a job in Kuala Lumpur, she's sent me an SOS.
Or at least I think it's her. If it is, then I've got to go. I owe her that much.
So soon I'll be on a plane to Macau, either to see a friend or walk into a trap. Or both.
But that's the way I like it. Sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is risking my life.
Time to go.
Winner of the CWA's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year 2013
'Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child
I make things disappear. It's what I do. This time I'm tidying up the loose ends after a casino heist gone bad. The loose ends being a million cash.
But I only have 48 hours, and there's a guy out there who wants my head in a bag.
He'll have to find me first.
They don't call me the Ghostman for nothing...
Jag är den bästa i mitt slag. Jag kan råna en bank och försvinna i mörkret utan att någon fattar att jag ens varit där. Jag kan ta mig in var som helst, imitera vem som helst och förändra mitt utseende hur som helst. Mitt jobb är att få saker att gå upp i rök. Det är därför de kallar mig Ghostman.
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY. Ett välplanerat casinorån går fruktansvärt fel. Det blir ett blodbad. En av rånarna skjuts i magen, men lyckas fly med en miljon dollar. Pengarna är vakuumförpackade och försedda med en sprängladdning som exploderar om den inte inaktiveras inom fyrtioåtta timmar. Det är därför Jack Delton kallas in. Jack är en Ghostman han får saker att försvinna: rånbyte, rånare, vad som än krävs. Han är specialiserad på stora, spektakulära rån, men på grund av en skuld tvingas han nu städa upp efter det misslyckade casinorånet. Han är dock inte ensam. Han jagas av både FBI och, än värre, av The Wolf.
Roger Hobbs prisbelönta debut är en adrenalinpumpande heist-thriller där läsaren invigs i en värld av spektakulära kupper och våldsamma uppgörelser. Boken är en internationell succé och såld till 24 länder. Filmrättigheterna är köpta av Warner Bros.
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 whos occasionally called Jack. While its doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if hes still alive, hes in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminals 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 Jacks 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.
