![]() ![]() The dangerous mop-up job he’s doing for Marcus also involves violence on a grand scale. How bad? “Bodies everywhere, loot missing, feds circling.” That kind of bad. Five years earlier, Jack botched an elaborate bank job in Kuala Lumpur, putting him in serious debt to Marcus Hayes, once the master of all jugmarkers and, in Jack’s view, “the most brutal man I’d ever met.” To shrink his debt, Jack agrees to clean up the mess after another of Marcus’s intricately planned robberies - knocking off an armored car full of casino cash - goes bad. Sexy as that sounds, it’s not quite true. I live alone, I sleep alone, I eat alone. “I’ve survived because I’m extremely careful. “I’m very good at what I do,” says Jack Delton (not his name, but it’ll do). Roger Hobbs has named GHOSTMAN (Knopf, $24.95) after the most elusive gang member - the guy who makes everything disappear. The crew you recruit for the job is likely to include a jugmarker, the tactical genius who designs these delicate operations a lip man to deliver the boss’s orders a boxman to crack the safe a bagman to handle the loot a wheelman to drive the getaway car and maybe a couple of buttonmen (“they hurt people”) to facilitate the whole enterprise. When it comes to language, Irish poets place a distant second to the crooks in crime novels. ![]()
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