Ghostman

(Paperback)

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People see what you tell them to see . . . Oceans Eleven meets Drive meets Lee Child in this extraordinary pulse-pounding debut from the best new thriller writer of the year '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... ________________ 'Brilliantly clever, gripping and action-packed. Utterly original and bound to become a big-budget movie.' SUNDAY MIRROR 'Quite astonishing . . . Mature, impeccably researched and written with supreme panache, it moves like a black mamba and is every bit as deadly. Fierce, taut and with an intensity that burns the lungs' DAILY MAIL 'Full of authentic detail, seedy locations and a high corpse count, it keeps you hooked until the very last page' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 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' 'Fast-paced, original, and strongly characterised' 'Unputdownable' 'A thriller that grips from start to finish' 'Tight story, great writing, interesting characters' 'Outstanding'

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Quite astonishing . . . Mature, impeccably researched and written with supreme panache, it moves like a black mamba and is every bit as deadly. Fierce, taut and with an intensity that burns the lungs, I doubt whether there will be a debut thriller to match it this year, or even next * DAILY MAIL *
Startling and sparkling assurance . . . A star is born Quite possibly * SUNDAY TIMES *
Full of authentic detail, seedy locations and a high corpse count, it keeps you hooked until the very last page * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Brilliantly clever, gripping and action-packed. Utterly original and bound to become a big-budget movie. * SUNDAY MIRROR *
Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense. Read it immediately! -- LEE CHILD

Author Bio

Roger Hobbs lived in Seattle, Washington after graduating in 2011 from Reed College. Ghostman was his debut novel and was published in twenty-three countries around the world. Vanishing Games is its sequel, which he started writing while living in China. Roger Hobbs died in November 2016.