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FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR AWARD--BEST FIRST NOVEL In a daring operation, two crooks-for-hire rob an Atlantic City casino. But their heist goes horribly wrong, and only one of them makes it out alive. Now he's on the run with half a million dollars vacuum-packed into a bundle the size of a briefcase. Little does he know it's rigged with explosives. Almost immediately, an expert fixer named Jack is in cross-country pursuit. With less than foty-eight hours to recover the money, clean up the mess, and--for god's sake--try not to botch the job like he did last time....
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A Booklist Best Mystery of the Year
Winner of The Strand Critics' Award
Winner of the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award
A pulse-pumping heist thriller. Rolling Stone
Smoking-fast. . . . The debut of a gifted crime writer. The New York Times
Fast, hard and knowing: this is an amazing debut full of intrigue, tradecraft and suspense. Read it immediately! Lee Child
A tense and tightly coiled debut thriller. Entertainment Weekly
A stunningly accomplished debut. . . . [Hobbs] has the talent to fuel bestsellers and summer blockbusters for years to come. The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richly imagined and darkly fascinating. San Francisco Chronicle
A super-slick thriller. New York Daily News
Stylishly gritty and fast-paced. O, The Oprah Magazine
A first-time novelist who s . . . already writing with the poise of an old pro. . . . Hobbs is an assured stylist who favors clean, precise prose, [and] handles violence with a lyric touch. The New York Times Book Review
Ghostman is terrific: lightning-quick, absolutely compelling, and smart as all get-out. The Seattle Times
Crackling with action. Bloomberg News
Wonderfully hard-boiled. Parade
A gripping adrenaline rush, a dirty bomb of a crime thriller with a deceptive plot that confounds and stimulates characters and readers alike. Portland Monthly
What [Lee] Child s debut novel, Killing Floor, did for thrillers, Hobbs does for crime novels. Arizona Republic
Hobbs is up there with the best. I don't think I've read a better botched heist than the one that begins Ghostman. It's a masterpiece of hyper-kinetic blocking and deep, vivid detail. John O Connell, The Guardian (London)
A propulsive thriller that combines incredible detail and unstoppable narrative drive. . . . Hobbs possesses a [Lee] Child-like ability for first unleashing and then shrewdly directing a tornado of a plot, but he also evokes Elmore Leonard in the subtle interplay of his characters. A triumph on every level. Booklist (starred review)
This watertight debut [is] at once slick and gritty. . . Straight out of the gate, Hobbs has mastered the essentials of a contemporary thriller: a noir-like tone, no-nonsense prose and a hero with just enough personality to ensure he doesn t come off as an amoral death machine [as well as] heart-stopping scenes that illustrate how small mistakes can turn catastrophic. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
