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This sequel to Hobbs' astonishingly assured debut, Ghostman, picks up the story of "Jack White", a cipher who wanders the world pulling off heists and killing time until the next job. Ghostman introduced us to Jack in a whirlwind 48 hour job in Atlantic City, intercut with flashbacks to a job gone wrong in Kuala Lumpur five years earlier. That narrative structure is repeated here, as Jack is jolted from his downtime by an urgent call -- this time from his mentor Angela, whom he hasn't seen since
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Ghostman Jack is back utilizing his intelligence and unique resources to live as a killer by trade. In this his second outing he is on Macau in the South China Sea reconnecting with his boss, Angela, whom he has not seen for some six years. What is most entertaining and remarkable about this novel is the author's attention to detail. Descriptions of Jack's nefarious deeds are given along with the reasons why a given task must be performed with exactitude for things to work. What is sad about thi
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