1991 showboat casino atlantic city robbery shooting

In the early chapters from the armored car robbery through our introduction to Jack, it seemed like we may be getting a new version of Parker for the digital age.

There was a lot about this debut book from Roger Hobbs that I loved. Jack ordinarily wouldn’t touch something this messy, but he owes Marcus a debt for a job that went sideways in Kuala Lumpur. After a hit on the money delivery from an armored car to an Atlantic City casino goes horribly wrong, the guy who planned the job, Marcus, calls Jack in to track down the missing cash and heisters.

Jack is a ‘ghostman’, a professional armed robber who lives off the grid and is a master of disguise. But since I’m a junkie for heist novels, I still liked it. You’re going to learn a whole lot of shit about every single piece of hardware or procedure involved whether you want to or not. The Proctor Silex had always gotten the job done for me. Some may use fancier toasters capable of holding four slices, and a real showboat might have one of those fancy bagel toasters. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s easy to burn the bread, or not have it toasted enough, but I had practiced with the Proctor Silex enough to have the settings memorized. When the capacitor reached a certain voltage, it cut the power to the electromagnet inside and allowed the spring to pop the toast up. 120 volts of power ran through the contacts to the nichrome wires at temperatures exceeding 300 degrees to toast the bread. I put the bread in the slots and pressed down the handle which activated the contacts and applied power to the circuit board. I was using a Proctor Silex 22605 Cool-Wall 2-Slice Toaster with white plastic sides and chrome top. Only a fool or an amateur would use white Wonder Bread. Other professional toast makers use whole grain or even raisin bread, but I like the taste and consistency of sourdough when toasted properly. You can use any type of bread to make toast, but I prefer sourdough. I went into the kitchen and put two pieces of sliced sourdough bread into the toaster. The main character from Ghostman makes some toast:

1991 showboat casino atlantic city robbery shooting