Hobbs begun his writing career at a young age.
Rachel Rayner, commissioning editor at Transworld Publishers, wrote for The Bookseller in 2013 that "it’s clear that Roger has an incredible future ahead", after the success of his debut that also secured him a film deal with Warner Bros. In 2015, he became the youngest person ever to win the Maltese Falcon award. In 2014, he won the Strand Critics award and was nominated for the Edgar, Barry, and Anthony awards. As well as winning the award for the best thriller of 2013, he was longlisted for a John Creasey Award for Best First Novel that year.
Hobbs' debut Ghostman, he wrote during his senior year of college, made him the youngest person ever to win a CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. And as his friend I'm doubly devastated."īill Scott-Kerr, publisher at Transworld, said of Hobbs it was "too upsetting to contemplate what he might have gone on to achieve", as "a new shining talent on the crime writing scene". Roger accomplished so much as a writer in so little time, and his future was sure to be extraordinary in ways we'll now never know. Gary Fisketjon, Hobbs' editor at Knopf, said in a statement: "It is is a shocking, tragic loss. I plan to read everything this author writes, and I look forward to his next book, where I hope we'll not only see more of Jack, but more of the mysterious Angela, as well.American thriller writer Roger Hobbs, author of Ghostman and Vanishing Games (Transworld), has died, aged 28, after an overdose. This amazing story is well-researched, thrilling, and intriguing to the very end. The plot twists and turns and the reader wonders who to believe, who to trust, and what to do next, right along with Jack. Jack finds himself caught between his scary employer and the even scarier Wolf, a criminal mastermind who owns Atlantic City. The story begins with a botched casino robbery and the hunt for the missing stolen money, which must be recovered quickly before the evil employer who hires Jack Delton, one of many aliases the Ghostman uses, is destroyed. The hero of Ghostman is a compelling character, and I found myself on his side, rooting for him, despite his off-the-grid criminal lifestyle. The main character may be a bad guy, but author Roger Hobbs gives him a clear voice and a code of standards.
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