Ghost Man (signed)

Hobbs, Roger

ISBN 10: 0307959961 / ISBN 13: 9780307959966

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2013

About this Item

Autographed stated first edition in clean unclipped dust jacket. Clean blue paper-covered boards with peach spine, silver lettering on spine. Slight wear to upper spine edge; binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean endpapers. Inscribed and signed on title page by the author: "Ellison, Thanks! - Roger Hobbs - 3/4/13." 321 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, no tears, not price clipped; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A gritty, well-written thriller that is, amazingly, this young writer's debut novel.

Seller Inventory # 32811

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghost Man (signed)
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0307959961
• ISBN 13: 9780307959966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery/Crime
  • SIGNED Editions
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Roger Hobbs lives in Portland, Oregon, after graduating in 2011 from Reed College. Ghostman will be published in fourteen countries around the world.