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It is kind of weird that I liked this book so much, because the main character is not really a good guy--he is actually a bad guy. But I think he is better than the really bad guys he has to deal with...but maybe not. The heist of a casino in Atlantic City goes bad, and the jugmarker (the guy who set it up--I learned a lot of criminal lingo in this book) calls in the ghostman (a criminal's criminal--a guy who can clean things up, make problems disappear, and then disappear himself) to get his mo
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So every time I get the Reed alumni magazine I immediately open it up and check to make sure no one younger than me has published a book.* As I get older I've had to change the parameters a bit: it's ok if someone published a poetry chapbook, it doesn't count if it's nonfiction and related to their work, it doesn't count if it sounds boring, etc. But then there was a novel, the ultimate form of book, and of course I had to read it.
I liked it. I didn't love it. I definitely enjoyed all the refer ...more
I liked it. I didn't love it. I definitely enjoyed all the refer ...more
This was an exciting thriller, though I felt like I got a tiny bit lost in all of the double crosses and double double crosses.
Disappointing. Despite some promising threads, this is an under developed novel. My interest in it was to examine some Atlantic City fiction. Really undelivered on this count.
