The Crime & Beyond Book Club picked Roger Hobb's Vanishing Games this month. How did the club like the book? Kerry Hammond reports back...
The Crime & Beyond Book Club's most recent pick was Roger
Hobbs’s second book, Vanishing Games.
Roger Hobbs has been writing from a very young age,
completing his first novel at just 13 (although his website proclaims that it
was a dreadful science fiction book). He became an international bestselling
novelist after signing a book deal for Ghostman at the age of 23. Ghostman
features Jack, a career criminal who steps in to try and clean up when a bank
robbery goes horribly wrong. His specialty is cleaning up and making himself
and others disappear.
Vanishing Games finds Jack in Macau six years later. He’s
summoned by Angela, his mentor, who disappeared without a trace after the bank
robbery. Angela is in trouble after a sapphire heist has gone horribly wrong
and turns to Jack for help.
Our book club loved Ghostman and couldn’t wait for the
sequel. We were not disappointed and Vanishing Games was met with high scores
and rave reviews. Jack may be a criminal, but he’s a likeable criminal and we
enjoyed his reappearance in Macau. Hobbs does a great job of bringing the city
to life and describing the seedy underworld that lurks behind the glitzy
casinos and wealthy visitors.
Hobbs has a wonderful way of outlining Jack’s criminal activities
and chronicling his adventures that makes it hard to put the book down. The
stories draw you in and keep you hooked until the end. We anxiously await book
three, which is to take place in Bangkok. Hopefully we don’t have long to wait.
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