Ghostman
A gripping and action-packed thriller
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4.2 • 33 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
'Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense. Read it immediately!' Lee Child
‘It keeps you hooked until the very last page.’ Sunday Telegraph
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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...
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What readers are saying:
***** ‘Fast-paced and exciting, I read it from cover to cover in a couple of days’
***** ‘Highly imaginative. A real page turner’
***** ‘A thriller that grips from start to finish’
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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. 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. 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. 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. Though occasionally overloaded with information about criminal procedure, Hobbs's supremely confident storytelling should leave readers eagerly anticipating his antihero's future felonies. 150,000 first printing; 5-city author tour.
Customer Reviews
Belter of a book
Absolute belter of a thriller. Fast paced. Intriguing. Informative. Surprising. Tense. Brutal.
Everything you want from a story. Loved it. Feel quite lost now that I’ve finished. I’m not sure what I can read now that won’t seem disappointing.
Oh Yes !
Excellent read and such a pleasure... Books don't always need to be 1500 pages+. I also read "I am Pilgrim"last week and now I have two new characters to look forward to. And Jack Reacher will arrive on my IPad on Thursday. It a hard life