![]() ![]() ![]() 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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