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Macau Closer…. Vanishing Games

Posted: April 23rd, 2025 | No Comments »

My latest column for Macau Closer magazine (the March-April issue) on Roger Hobbs’s 2015 thriller Vanishing Games….. the book is mostly set in Macau and moves along apace… here the book’s blurb…

A lifetime ago I had a mentor, Angela. She taught me how to be a criminal, how to run a heist.

And now, six years after she vanished and left me high and dry on a job in Kuala Lumpur, she’s sent me an SOS.

Or at least I think it’s her. If it is, then I’ve got to go. I owe her that much.

So soon I’ll be on a plane to Macau, either to see a friend or walk into a trap. Or both.

But that’s the way I like it. Sometimes the only thing that makes me happy is risking my life.



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