Ghostman [WorldCat Entities]

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"Ghostman"

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"A casino robbery gone wrong compels its orchestrator to call in a favour from a master criminal known only as "Jack," who must test the limits of his considerable skills in order to protect his anonymity from a closely pursuing FBI."@en
"Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, -- Ghostman Exclusively for the eBook: Autobiography of a Ghostman."@en
"Cuando el robo a un casino en Atlantic City sale horriblemente mal, Marcus Hayes, eminencia del crimen internacional y cerebro del golpe, no tiene más remedio que llamar a "Jack". Jack Delton es un "ghostman", un experto en "arreglar" escenas de crímenes, capaz de desaparecer y hacer desaparecer lo que haga falta. Su verdadera identidad es un misterio, y muchos incluso lo dan por muerto. En cuestión de horas un jet privado traslada a Jack a la escena del crimen. Es un desastre de colosales dimensiones: uno de los asaltantes yace cosido a balazos a pocos metros del casino y el otro está herido y en paradero desconocido. Un francotirador ha boicoteado el robo, pero ¿quién más sabía del golpe? Jack no tiene demasiado tiempo: los 1,2 millones de dólares en billetes nuevos que han desaparecido llevan incorporada una carga que los destruirá si no se desactiva a tiempo y, por si esto fuera poco, el FBI sigue de cerca sus movimientos. Desde las primeras páginas, Ghostman arrastra al lector al trepidante mundo de Jack. Con una trama impredecible, una prosa apasionante y gran maestría, Roger Hobbs nos brinda una novela que lo coloca a la altura de los mejores autores del género."
"A casino robbery gone wrong compels its orchestrator to call in a favor from a master criminal known only as "Jack," whose activities are subject to mystery and speculation and who must test the limits of his considerable skills in order to protect his anonymity from a closely pursuing FBI."
"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 anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, he's in his mid-30's 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. 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 contend with all this will require every gram of his skill, ingenuity, and self protective instincts. They don't call him Ghostman for nothing."@en
"Kein Coup ist zu heiss für ihn, kein Job ist zu gefährlich ... Sich unsichtbar zu machen, ist sein tägliches Geschäft. Alles Mögliche verschwinden zu lassen, damit kennt er sich aus. Diesmal geht es um einen misslungenen Überfall auf ein Kasino. Er soll aufräumen, die Spuren beseitigen. Eine Millionen Dollar in bar stehen auf dem Spiel - 48 Stunden hat er Zeit. Und da draussen gibt es jemanden, der es auf seinen Kopf abgesehen hat. Aber auch der wird ihn zuerst einmal finden müssen. Sie nennen ihn schliesslich nicht umsonst 'Ghostman'. Roger Hobbs ist 24 Jahre alt und hat die Rohfassung seines ersten Romans "Ghostman" bereits fertiggestellt, als er noch zum College ging. 2011 schloss er sein Studium am Reed College erfolgreich ab. Derzeit schreibt er an der Fortsetzung seines Romans. Ausserdem hat ihn Warner Bros. für ein weiteres Projekt als Drehbuchautor verpflichtet. Roger Hobbs lebt in Portland, Oregon."
""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 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-thirties 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. 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 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 novel that will immediately place him in the company of our most esteemed crime writers."--Provided by publisher."