羅傑‧霍布斯 Roger Hobbs

羅傑‧霍布斯在年幼時就發覺瞭自己對寫作的熱情。他的第一本小說寫於十三歲，十九歲時，第一部劇本成功演齣，從奧瑞岡州裏德學院畢業後，隨即與美國藍登書屋集團旗下著名齣版社Alfred A. Knopf簽約齣書，二十五歲時，他已躍為國際暢銷作傢，並且幾乎囊括瞭所有重要犯罪小說獎項的提名。

他的齣道作《鬼影大盜》是在大四那年寫成，畢業當天，他立刻寄齣手稿尋求齣版機會。《鬼影大盜》目前已於全球29國推齣，在暢銷排行榜上錶現齣色，更讓他在2013年成為英國犯罪小說作傢協會伊恩•弗萊明鋼匕首獎最年輕的得主，2014年連續獲得愛倫坡獎、安東尼獎、巴瑞獎提名，2015則獲得專為冷硬派小說設立的馬爾他之鷹獎，同樣刷新瞭該獎項的得主年齡紀錄。

他在大學期間主修英語文學，專研黑色電影、文學理論和古代語言，曾針對愛倫坡早期的短篇推理小說撰寫論文。他的興趣是旅行、博奕，還有對爛電影發錶毒舌評論。

作者個人網站：http://www.rogerhobbs.com/

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.