The legendary thief Gideon Sable may be all-but-retired, but he's got time for one last job, and for that, he'll need his old crew back together. As the fifth and presumably final in the series, this offers up some fairly final fates for some of the regular cast, while giving everyone the ending they deserve. It's typical Green--snappy dialogue, capable heroes, dastardly villains, unspeakable horrors, weird magic, and a lot of violence. Fairly formulaic but entertaining nonetheless.

I have been a huge fan of Simon R. Green's writing since I read his Nightside series years ago. I was sad when that series wrapped up, but have been very entertained by two of his newer series -- Ishmael Jones and Gideon Sable. Both series have that fantastical, other-worldly, supernatural feel like the Nightside books, with main characters that are just wonderfully weird. I grab each new book that comes out and just savor each series. Always entertaining!

Where is Anybody? is this 5th book in the Gideon Sable series. Gideon is a thief. A master thief. And, he only steals items that can't be stolen. So he isn't out pulling bank robberies and the every day sort of heists.....he's looking for legendary items, dangerous mythical doo-dads, cursed relics, or things that technically don't actually exist.

This time, someone close to Gideon has been kidnapped. And he has to find an out of this world item in order to get her back. And he only has two days to do it.

Wonderful, weird adventure with lots of suspense, action, and fun! I loved every word! Can't wait for the next book! Simon R. Green stories never disappoint. I had a great time reading this story!

**I voluntarily read a review copy of this book from Severn House. All opinions expressed are entirely my own.**

I'd firstly like to say that the Gideon Sable series has been a fantastic one for me, it;s the first series from Simon R. Green that I have completely read and has shown me that Mr Green has a lot to offer the literary world and to me personally.

The books have been fun and intriguing and Where Is Anybody? is no exception to that statement. It's been a fast ride but a wild one. The characters have been cleverly crafted and each is different yet realistic despite their 'otherworldlyness'. The backstory and mythology behind the stories have been engaging and I found the mystery behind who the original Gideon Sable was/is the most fascinating part, despite the lack of clarity on the subject. The author has been unafraid to put the characters he's created through the ringer and back out again, not always in one piece which I admire greatly. He's teased the backstory, teased the past but always left it incredibly murky and given the reader space to imagine it all for themselves.

Where Is Anybody? is a wonderful swan song for what I presume is the end of the series, even though I would happily read more, and has given the whole story a solid and easy ending which is satisfying and doesn't leave any open ended questions. It's a great read and the series as a whole is well worth spending some time with. The story is thoroughly engaging as are the characters and at the end of the day the book is just fabulous despite it's being relatively short (as are all the books).

Read this book, read this series, you won't regret it!!

There are series where if you plunged into the fifth book, you’d be completely floundering. This isn’t one of them. While I’d advise you to go back to the start of Gideon’s adventures in The Best Thing You Can Steal so you can more thoroughly enjoy his extraordinary crimes – it isn’t a dealbreaker if you don’t.

The next point I’d like to make is that the cover is somewhat misleading. The dark creepiness makes this one look far more horrific than it actually is. Yes, there is a reasonable pile of bodies by the end with some unexpected deaths that caught me unawares; yes the stakes are very high; and yes, some of the victims die in very nasty ways. But Green’s dark humour permeates the story to the extent I was often sniggering at the banter between the crew, even in the frequent life or death situations.

Gideon isn’t a good person – he’s a thief and con artist, whose instinct is to nick things that catch his eye. But he has lines he won’t cross. He steals from people who have done unpleasant things and while he’s clocked up an impressive number of powerful enemies, who’d like nothing more than to see him die in agony – he also has a surprising number of people who like him sufficiently to risk their lives to keep him safe. While I’ve enjoyed the whole series, I hadn’t felt quite as close to Gideon as I did to poor, stranded Ishmael in Green’s previous series – until this book. There is a thoroughly enjoyable plot twist at the end where I finally felt that Gideon’s defences are completely down and I was able to see the real person behind the façade. In fact, the ending is poignant, unexpected and quite funny – which is a neat trick to pull off in a series described as dark horror.

All in all, I’m sorry this series has come to an end, but that regret is tempered by the really good job Green makes in tying up all the loose threads and giving our hero’s adventures a satisfying conclusion. Recommended for fans of dark fantasy, who appreciate a bit of a laugh alongside the violence and monsters. While I obtained an arc of Where is Anybody? from the publisher via Netgalley, the opinions I have expressed are unbiased and my own.
9/10

This is a fun series, sort of a mystical heist book. I do think the author ran out of steam a bit after the first one, which was great, and felt like a complete story. Not sure how much else they really had to say. Fun short read though

Gideon Sable is a lot of things – thief, rogue, collector, jack of all slightly nefarious trades and a master of several of them – more than he admits but then he likes to be underestimated. It’s all part of the game, after all.

But he’s been trying to go straight – or as straight as anyone can who operates in Old Soho – after the events of Not of This World. But it’s not working for him. He misses the thrill of the hunt – and the curiosities and oddities store he inherited always needs more stock.

He may have sorta/kinda convinced himself that’s that’s enough to justify all of his occasional illegal forays into other people’s collections – particularly as he only steals from people – and creatures – who really, really deserve it. But his partner, Annie Anybody, can always see right through him.

She always wears someone else’s face, so it’s easy for her to spot that her partner is wearing a mask of contentment that doesn’t quite fit. Gideon may always be ‘the man with a plan’ but this time Annie has a plan of her very own – and it’s much, much better than Gideon’s.

All he has to do is get the old gang back together – or at least as together as some of them can ever be – and ride to Annie’s rescue. Because Annie’s been kidnapped by one of Gideon’s many, many old enemies – and he’ll do anything to get her back. No matter how many impossibly well-guarded collections he has to burgle to save the love of his life.

But no plan – not even Gideon’s – survives first contact, especially when that enemy already knows all of Gideon’s tricks. As Annie’s kidnapper most definitely and absolutely does.

Escape Rating B: If the TV series Leverage had a book baby with the author’s own Nightside series the result would be Gideon Sable. Gideon is a liar, a thief, and a con artist, much like Nate Ford in Leverage – who is also ‘a man with a plan’. But Gideon, even though he usually operates outside the law and against the powers that be, only operates against villains who are much worse than he has any intention of ever being – even if those he considers fair game often represent that law OR are themselves among the powers-that-be. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and Gideon Sable is right there waiting for some of them to step over a line that sometimes only he can see.

But he’s not really Gideon Sable. Or rather he IS Sable now but he hasn’t always been. In Old Soho, the mask and moniker of Gideon Sable belongs to whoever can steal it and keep it. In the first book in the series, The Best Thing You Can Steal, he had just assumed that identity – whoever he used to be.

This story, which looks like the final book in the series, reads like a bit of a victory lap for the character – in spite of his desperation to save Annie and enact some serious justice on whoever took her from him.

Along the way, first he has to get the old gang back together – and every single one of them needs help before they are available to help him. Even old friends and enemies manage to pop onstage for a brief moment and fans of the series will enjoy seeing most of them again – even the ones that Gideon himself would prefer to drop into a pit lined with spikes or vipers or both.

One of the things that has made this series work for me is that Gideon is a stream-of-consciousness snarkmaster of the first order and we see everything from inside his wry, cynical, sarcastic head. If you like his voice, you’ll enjoy the series – and probably most of the author’s other series – because the style is the same throughout and his worlds tend to bleed into one another – often literally.

Just don’t attempt to start here. It would be like reading the last chapter of a book before the first – before anything that’s going on in the ending has enough backstory to make sense. But all the books in the series are just barely above novella length, so if you like a lot of sass and snark in your protagonists then Gideon Sable might be your jam.

It certainly has been mine, and I’m sad that this series seems to be ending. At least I still have a few of his Ishmael Jones series left to read for when I next need some high quality snarcasm!

Simon Green is winding up the story of Gideon Sable and his nefarious stealing ways in Where is Anybody? He has to find Time's Arrow or he will loose Annie Anybody, his soulmate, who has been kidnapped. He brings together his team and starts hunting. What could go wrong. Read and find out.

I enjoyed this book. It reminds me of the Nightside series. It’s a quick read. I was surprised that this is the end of the series. #WhereisAnybody? #NetGalley

Gideon and Annie live a relatively calm life, buying and selling magical objects in their (not so) little store. But Gideon is missing the thrill of stealing things, so at night he frequently slips out. One night he returns to discover Annie (Anybody) is missing! In order to get her back, he is forced to steal something really rare, an object that lets you go back in time to right all the wrongs you’ve done. This object is currently part of a secret exhibition at a secret location where people with lots of secrets go to admire them. Sort of a museum…
Gideon cannot fulfil this task alone, so he gathers his old friend – and some of his enemies as well. Things do not go as smoothly as he hoped for, and during the story he discovers lots of new secrets about his old friend and enemies.
I just loved reading this because it’s so over the top! From the stuffed bear that guards Gideon’s shop, to my absolute favourite the mirror that is just not any mirror. All characters, whether they are good or bad, have the same kind of dark humour and often I had to laugh out loud.
All things come to an end and I think (and I’m not the only one here) that this is the end of this series. That’s a pity but I can understand why there had to be an ending to this series. It’s all rounded up nicely! I’m looking forward to reading more books by Simon Green as I’ve read a lot of them in the past already.
Thanks to Severn House and Netgalley for this review copy.

One last time to get the crew back together (after fighting off Satanists and heartless game hunters, to gather Lex, Sally, and Polly from their various endeavors) and save Annie while pulling off a great heist at the Midnight Club in order to get Time's Arrow as a bargaining chip for Annie's safe return. I believe this is a farewell, at least to this version of Gideon Sable and I must say he had a good run in this series, found friends and family and come to realize what the most important things in life are, not the heists, each grander and more wild than the last, but the people he cares for. So, yes, I enjoyed this last caper which also included traveling to another dimension and helping another him pull off a theft and releasing rare animals from a hunter's abode on a jungle island, it had a nice ad fitting ending that took care of Lex and Sally (whose love for each other is wonderful!) and Gideon and Annie (time to pass the mantle of Gideon Sable on to someone else).

This was an entertaining series with plenty of laugh out moments and nice little twists as Gideon outsmarts all the villains and getting away with the treasure. And I had fun reading them all.

It looks like this might be the final book in the series about Gideon Sable and his group of extraordinary friends.

This is quite a good story, yet I felt it was missing something compared to the earlier books in the series. However, I also think it serves excellently as a conclusion to the series; many characters we've met in previous books find the endings to their stories. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what I felt was missing that I found in the earlier books. Maybe it's because it was a series of smaller quests rather than one larger plan, or it could just be my current peculiar mood towards reading lately.

The book is written in the very typical style of this author that we have come to know from the previous books. It is full of good humor, sometimes a bit absurd, but above all, it's a wild ride. There's always something happening, with the action racing along at breakneck speed. This has always been a strong point of the series.

The plot is interesting and quite intricate. As I said, there are several smaller quests that lead to the ultimate goal of rescuing Annie Anybody, who has been kidnapped from Gideon's shop by a mysterious person. The kidnapper demands the legendary Time's Arrow in exchange, which must be stolen from a heavily guarded museum—something only Gideon and his friends can achieve. But to reassemble his team, Gideon must first help them complete a few smaller jobs.

In this way, we meet many familiar characters from previous books, both Gideon's friends and his enemies, who also appear in this story. Many of their stories find their conclusions here. I admit I didn't remember all of them equally well, but it was still nice to see so many familiar faces again. I was a bit disappointed with the ending, even though I think it provides a definitive conclusion to the series. Nonetheless, I was expecting something more spectacular.

While I feel that earlier books in the series could be read even if you hadn't read the previous ones, with this one, in my opinion, that's no longer possible. You simply won't have the necessary background on the characters to understand everything that's happening, and you won't be attached enough to them to care about them. So, I recommend this book primarily to those who have read the earlier books in the series.

"Legendary master thief and conman Gideon Sable must pull off an impossible heist to save his partner's life in this fast-paced supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling British fantasy author Simon R. Green.

Gideon Sable specializes in stealing the kind of things that can't usually be stolen. But these days the legendary master thief is officially retired from the caper game. Now, instead of pulling off elaborate heists with his crew of supernatural specialists, he runs a magical shop in the heart of London with his partner Annie Anybody. Still, he can't resist occasionally going out in the night to steal things when Annie's not looking. For old times' sake - and for the joy of the con.

But after one of his late-night illicit jaunts, Gideon returns to the shop to find that while he's been stealing, someone else has been hard at work...stealing from him. I have taken Annie Anybody, reads the note on the countertop. If you ever want to see her again, you must find and steal Time's Arrow. You have forty-eight hours.

Stealing the legendary Arrow isn't a challenge; it's certain death. But Gideon will stop at nothing to save Annie from their unknown enemy - with or without the help of his talented, terrifying former crew..."

Thieves can never retire. It will be work work work until the day they die.

I love Simon R. Green and I have been reading his works for YEARS. I love picking up his works, at this point the characters are like old friends. I think I started with his Nightside series and have worked through just about everything he has written up until this point.

If you like urban fantasy, This may be a series you would want to start from the beginning instead of picking up at this book. This is #5, so I certainly recommend working your way up to this point, so you know who the main players are and how we got to this point.

In this book, Gideon Sable, our main protagonist, has to find Annie after she has been kidnapped and of course magic is no help what-so-ever. Ultimately he has to get his rag-tag crew together and go on an adventure. I think the wit and humor along the way is always my favorite. who doesn't love smart-ass characters who's mouth gets them in trouble more often than not? I mean, that tends to be what most of Simon R. Green's main character's do. I love it every time! There's really never a dull moment and the book goes really quickly so you could read this in one or two sittings, so just do it!

Where Is Anybody? is the fifth book in the Gideon Sable series. I really enjoy this series. They are short and fast paced and humorous. I love the crew too. They can be read in just one day. I love the crew too. I hope there will be more books in the series. I hope there will be more. I highly recommend this series to anyone. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an early copy. I will post my review closer to the publication date.

Where is Anybody? by Simon R. Green, a fun read that pulls you in and makes you want to keep coming back. Green is a master of the genre and is fairly prolific, I am always on the lookout for any new books of his and this one did not disappoint.

This is good, solid Gideon Sable. There are a number of cleverly plotted and entertaining set pieces, and a a few surprises for series regulars. A fine entry in the Gideon Sable experience.

Humour and banter, over the top antics, a satisfactory if not usually predictable conclusion - just what I expect from a Simon Green novel and this one doesn't disappoint. Yes, it's similar in a lot of way to his previous books, but that's why I pick them up - I know I'll enjoy them! I won't comment on the plot, because really that's only an excuse for the banter and shenanigans!

I enjoyed the romps with Gideon Sable, Annie Anybody and the rest of their crew and am glad their adventures drew to a satisfactory conclusion (not always the case with fantasy series).

A light-hearted, fun way to spend a few hours - recommended.

This is a continuation of the Gideon Sable books. It may be the last in the series. It is good to see the returning characters in this satisfying conclusion.

As this may be the last in the series, I'm giving 5 stars as I loved the characters and stories. Gideon wants to keep his hand in the con and goes out on night.y jaunts thinking Annie doesn't notice, until he returns to find someone found Annie and left a kidnappers note. The on.y way to get her back is retrieving an impossible item. His only option is getting the old crew back together and nonstop action results. Always snarky, the dialog doesn't disappoint and the action and adventure doesn't either. I guessed early on who was behind the kidnapping, but there is still surprises throughout the book with a final chapter to sum it all up, which I really appreciated. Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the trade of a free read for an honest opinion.

I’ve been reading his author for years, so I know exactly what I’m getting when I read one. While his books aren’t perfect, I still quite enjoy them just like I did this one. Poor Gideon doesn’t know what to do with himself after Annie is kidnapped, and he can’t find her using any magical means. So, he gets the old crew together to find her. I was surprised at the end, as I generally am since this author usually has a twist, and this was quite a twist. I think this might be the last book in the series considering how it ended. Yes, this series follows a formula, but I still enjoy them anyway as the books are entertaining, witty, action-packed, and fun. Recommend. I was provided a complimentary copy which I voluntarily reviewed.