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The Ghost: A Novel
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9781416551812
Edition: 1
ISBN: 1416551816
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Editorial Review:
Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving and most controversial prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics, secrets with the power to kill.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Didn't live up to the promise
Heard a favorable review of this book on NPR. After wondering repeatedly how it rose to the top of the NPR review list, I talked myself out of putting it down permanently and gave it another chance... and another... and another. This is a mediocre book whose writing doesn't live up to the promise of the storyline. I'll finish it -- only because I have nothing on my bedstand waiting to take its place.
Rating:  - The Ghost
The hero in "The Ghost" in an unnamed ghostwriter, who takes over the job as ghostwriter for British ex-prime minister Adam Lang, after the previous ghostwriter, Mike McAra, died mysteriously. Our ghost hero travels to Martha's Vineyard where Lang is staying, and while the ghost tries to meet his deadline, Adam Lang is accused of war crimes and the ghost happens upon some of McAra's research, he realizes Lang may be hiding something.
The book is written in first person, and it's well ... Read More
Rating:  - Brilliant
I enjoy Robert Harris novels as he always seems to provide stimulating plots with historical significance. This time, however, he has outdone himself and by bringing in modern day plausable conspiracy he has created a novel worthy of John Le Carre or Robert Littel. You don't know what happens until the last sentence on the last page. This one makes you think, it makes you laugh, the premise makes total sense (unlike Baldacci's, for example). The best book I have read all year...
Rating: - Brilliant!
This excellent novel won the "Best Thriller" Award for 2007 this year at International Thriller Writers Inc.'s ThrillerFest. Well, I certainly don't understand the negative reviews posted here on Amazon... the book is brilliantly conceived and executed. The story concerns a ghostwriter for a former British prime minister who's writing his memoirs. Needless to say, secrets and intrigue are uncovered. What is truly unique is how the author (Harris) becomes the "ghost" (the narrator) so fluidly, and ... Read More
Rating: - Disappointing
The Ghost
I expect more from this author. The book is a rather transparent slam at Tony Blair, and while the ending provides a somewhat satisfying twist, the reader has to slug though too many pages to get there. So, it would have been a great novella.
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