The Ghost Writer - Softcover

Harris PH D, Vice Provost Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1439190550 ISBN 13: 9781439190555

Publisher: Gallery Books, 2010

Synopsis

Don’t miss the major motion picture staring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan. An eerily timely thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder from bestselling author Robert Harris.

“The moment I heard how McAra died, I should have walked away. I can see that now. . . .”

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under shocking circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job.

It’s not just his predecessor’s mysterious death that haunts him, but Adam Lang himself. Deep in Lang’s past are buried shocking secrets . . . secrets with the power to alter world politics . . . secrets with the power to kill.


Named Novel of the Year by the International Thriller Writers

About this title

Review:

"A master of the intelligent thriller...The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form" (The Times)

"Truly thrilling" (Sunday Times)

"Robert Harris's latest thriller is more than a fun read: it is a super-duper, double fun bag-sized read thanks to his masterful plotting" (Daily Telegraph)

"Harris has written a remarkable thriller... He knows how to tell a story" (Sunday Telegraph)

"The Ghost is arguably the finest novel yet to have emerged from the so-called Age of Terror... This is an important book about the major issues of our time" (Mail on Sunday)

Book Description:

The stunning new novel from the No. 1 bestselling author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1439190550
• ISBN 13: 9781439190555
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352