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. 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. 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.Stunningly dark, hugely intelligent and thoroughly addictive, Ghostman announces the arrival of an exciting and highly distinctive novelist. 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. Jack has no real name, no address and no fingerprints-but given the right motivation, he can make serious problems vanish.

Within hours he’s flying halfway around the world to find her in the glimmering neon slums of Macau. She calls in a favor from her onetime protégé: a fixer sometimes known as Jack, or more often as simply the Ghostman. His boss, Angela, isn’t about to let that happen. He’ll have the power to change the course of history. If he disappears, he won’t just be wealthy. Within minutes two of them are dead, leaving the third, a coldblooded psychopath, to claim both the sapphires and the mysterious windfall for himself. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn’t on the manifest, everything goes sideways.

Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. It’s just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the critically acclaimed and award-winning Roger Hobbs

Ghostman by Roger Hobbs