For someone so young, he is a master of detail, using elegant and often technical language to build tension. Hobbs sent off the final draft of the manuscript on the day of his graduation from Reed in 2011-and got not just a response, but a book deal. The release of Ghostman by a major book house feels like a grand publishing heist of its own. Not all of it is disguises and fake passports and driver’s licenses and stolen birth certificates, either. “There isn’t a proper name for what we do, but we used to call ourselves ghostmen. Hobbs populates this hell with the usual host of psychopaths, led by an especially demonic man called “The Wolf.” Delton must maneuver through physical dangers while simultaneously contending with the distraction of his own personal demons, forcing patience on the reader as the burning plot unfurls.
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