Ghost of a Chance
View our feature on Simon R. Green's Ghost of a Chance. A brand-new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightside novels! The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to...
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View our feature on Simon R. Green's Ghost of a Chance. A brand-new series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Nightside novels! The Carnacki Institute exists to "Do Something" about Ghosts-and agents JC Chance, Melody Chambers, and Happy Jack Palmer will either lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441019168 (0441019161)
Publish date: August 31st 2010
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 260
Edition language: English
Series: Ghost Finders (#1)
~~Moved from GR~~ Ghost of a Chance (Ghost Finders #1) by Simon R. Green Sigh. I've now read at least one book in most of Simon R. Green's major series, and I think I'm going to give up. I find the concepts of his books tantalizing in general, and even though there's nothing I fundamentally disl...
I'm starting to think that I'm some kind of literary masochist. The last several books I've read have been downright painful, and Ghost of a Chance does nothing to break my unlucky streak. The book starts out with the three main characters setting up shop for some ghost catching. Cue the clumsy info...
There are books that disappointed me. There have been books that I’ve torn to shreds in my criticism. There have been books that made me physically angry. There’s only been one that I’ve actually thrown at a wall. (The other book I wanted to chuck across the room, I couldn’t because I was reading st...
I love Simon R. Green. Just not this. I wasn't a fan of the Drood series but that had more to do with the plot not interesting me not with the characters or the writing.This? This is the taste of Simon R. Green but without any real flavor.
I am going to assume, given his long body of work and fan base, that Simon R. Green is capable of writing a damn fine yarn. I'm going to assume that Ghost of a Chance is the result of the unfortunate intersection of an author getting a nice, fat advance for a story proposal with that author's inabil...