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From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Dashing, captivating Adam Lang was Britain's longest serving � and most controversial � prime minister of the last half century, whose career ended in tatters after he sided with America in an unpopular war on terror. No

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Hardcover, 335 pages

Published October 23rd 2007 by Simon & Schuster (first published September 26th 2007)

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Oct 18, 2009 Dennis D. rated it 3 of 5 stars

To me, a good thriller can be like a colonic...something breezy and unsubstantial to flush the system out, especially if one has just finished something bloated and ponderous (I'm talking about YOU, Tree of Smoke)!

"The Ghost" is a good thriller. A recently retired-from-office British Prime Minister hires a ghost-writer (duh- because the story is written in the first person, I never noticed that the name of the narrator/protagonist is never supplied) to help him write his memoirs. Our hero is the...more

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Aug 01, 2008 Susy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I supposed this was a roman a clef since Harris was –as mentioned everywhere- a former friend of the Blairs. It’s just a thriller with enough links with what we think is the reality of politics to feel as fact. And he wields a scalpel on them with finesse and venom. An ex British PM is “writing” his memoirs with the help of a former aide who is found drowned in an apparent suicide. Enters a professional ghost-writer, the first person narrator of the novel, whose name we never found out. And then...more

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Mar 27, 2008 will rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Ghost by Robert Harris.

A roller-coaster of a book - and not in a good way.

I like Robert Harris books and I loved his last one - Imperium. I loved it so much that I was really looking forward to the next in the series (neil h. informed me that it was part of a trilogy). Therefore I was a little meh about the fact he had taken time out to write The Ghost. Damn writers and their need to write a story instead of the one I wanted to read! However, there was branch of Borders shutting down t'other...more

The Ghost by Robert Harris.

A roller-coaster of a book - and not in a good way.

I like Robert Harris books and I loved his last one - Imperium. I loved it so much that I was really looking forward to the next in the series (neil h. informed me that it was part of a trilogy). Therefore I was a little meh about the fact he had taken time out to write The Ghost. Damn writers and their need to write a story instead of the one I wanted to read! However, there was branch of Borders shutting down t'other day and they were offering 40% off all books. They had a copy of The Ghost on the shelves and I picked it up - I knew that I would read it eventually, I just didn't want to pay full price for something I might not enjoy. And, it was with that mentality (I'm not going to enjoy it) that I started the book.

But it is a Robert Harris book and, as I've stated, I like his books. It didn't take long for me to start enjoying it. Oh sure, there was the usual cringe moments - this man cannot write a sex scene to save his life. In fact, he can't even write a "sexy" scene to save his life:

She crossed her legs at the ankles, leaned forward to read, and I found myself staring into the surprisingly deep and shadowy valley of her cleavage.

But there are the usual page-turning chapters - those moments when you really should put the book down and get on with your life but you just need to find out what happened next.

The story is about a man who is called in to ghost the memoires of a former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang. The Lang character is clearly supposed to be Tony Blair and the author (Harris) displays a great hatred of Mr. Blair. It is that hatred of a spurned lover, an emotion I can understand. When Blair was elected, I was so excited, so positive - I sang along to "Things Can Only Get Better" for the several hours it played, as we waited for him to arrive in London. But it all went wrong. All the dreams, all the hopes, all the beliefs turned out to false. He wasn't the saviour we all thought. He leaves a legacy that is dominated by a war in Iraq. And, it is the reason why we went to war, that forms the cornerstone to this novel.

At first Mr. Harris builds his usual story web. He introduces the characters, he sets scenes wonderfully, he leaves enough clues scattered about to make you feel clever for spotting them. However the ending is rushed. It is trite. The denouement is contrived and a bit insulting. A true roller-coaster ride. I started of not liking the book, learned to love it, ended up disliking it. Of coursem ,y disappointment is mainly because it is a Robert Harris book and I expect better of him (except for the sex scenes). If this had been written by Dan Brown I would be announcing to the world that it is his finest piece of work. But, if it had been written by Mr. Brown, I wouldn't have picked it up. Over at goodreads.com I have given it three stars - I liked it - rather than two - it was OK - because it was a Robert Harris book. But, not his best. To finish on a quote from this book:

All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same.[..] And what they have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is true necessarily, just that it feels true for the time you are reading it.

Unfortunately, Mr. Harris, although your book feels true for a good solid part of it, it falls short at the end. It verges towards being a bad book.
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Feb 12, 2009 kinu triatmojo rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

ada dua tokoh cerita dalam buku ini yang menurut saya bakal sulit ditemukan di indonesia (bahkan saya menyangkanya gak ada). yang pertama tentu saja sang penulis bayangan; seseorang yang dibayar untuk menulis otobiografi, yang namanya tidak disebutkan (tentu saja kalau disebutkan akan ketahuan kalau bukan otobiografi), dan bekerja dalam tenggat waktu tertentu (biasanya ketat). yang kedua adalah agen yang "memiliki" penulis bayangan, yang pekerjaannya menghubungkan "pekerjanya" dengan penerbitan...more

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May 07, 2013 Linda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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The Ghost Writer by Robert Harris was a a very entertaining story. Although it received only moderate reviews, I was drawn in by the descriptive language of the author and by the high quality of the actor that read the book. I felt as if I knew the frustrations, challenges and sorrows of the ghost came through in the story.

It is true that the people in out lives who are quietly behind the scenes supporting and working toward others success do not get the recognition or acknowledgement they dese...more

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Apr 19, 2009 Kathleen Dixon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: detective-spy

A successful ghost-writer is suddenly asked to complete the ex-British Prime Minister's memoirs. Against his better judgement he says yes, and finds himself in Martha's Vineyard in the winter, among a group of highly stressed people (the ex-PM, his wife, a PA, some secretaries, the security team) who are having to deal with fall-out from the collusion with the US in the "War on Terror" and torture of prisoners.

Our ghost-writer notices a few strange things, but bumbles along notwithstanding, unti...more

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Jul 25, 2011 James Schubring rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The Ghost by Robert Harris is the first book about a writer that I can remember getting excited to read, glad to trumpet, and eager to put on my 'must read again' list.

It's tough to write a novel about a writer. Most of writing is, unfortunately, solitary and tedious. Write a line, hate it, delete it, rewrite it. A lot of bad literary fiction treats the writerly life, as stumped writers write about what they know: writing badly. This novel is about a ghostwriter who specializes in doing fast mem...more The Ghost by Robert Harris is the first book about a writer that I can remember getting excited to read, glad to trumpet, and eager to put on my 'must read again' list.

It's tough to write a novel about a writer. Most of writing is, unfortunately, solitary and tedious. Write a line, hate it, delete it, rewrite it. A lot of bad literary fiction treats the writerly life, as stumped writers write about what they know: writing badly. This novel is about a ghostwriter who specializes in doing fast memoirs for aging rockers and minor celebrities. He's good at going fast which is why he gets the gig as ghost-writer #2 for a British ex-prime minister who's about to miss his deadline for his contracted memoirs. He's wasted 2 years and now the ghost writer has four weeks.

Of course, there has to be a problem. Ghost Writer #1 didn't resign, throw a tantrum: he died, supposedly throwing himself off a ferry in a storm. Never a good start to a business relationship, something this dark hanging in the background.

The ex-Prime Minister (a version of Tony Blair, perhaps) is the heart of the book. It's beautifully written pages never command more attention than when we're listening to this politician explain his life through a tissue of lies he's constructed.

Too bad for the reader we don't get to spend more time with the ex-Prime Minister, but he's pulled away from us by a scandal held over from his years in office. It seems he authorized the extraordinary rendition of several suspected terrorists and signed papers to that effect; now it's coming back to haunt him so he has to get out and launch a political campaign of sorts to keep the wolves at bay.

This delay allows our ghostwriter to stop writing and start getting curious. He starts digging and that's never going to end well in a novel of this type. The middle third seemed to drag a bit on first reading, but the ending of this brilliant tale forces us to go back and revisit a lot of that conventional-seeming middle and reinterpret it. Nothing's nailed down in this expert tale.

It's filled to the brim, as a novel about an observant writer must be, with sparkling gems of wit and interest. That more than anything sells the novel: the ghost writer at the center of the tale is one bright fellow who still manages to dig himself a grave, gets his analysis all wrong, blunders like an untrained adventurer into the jungle.

A tremendous tale, knotty and mischievous and written better than most literary fiction. This isn't a thriller, as bashed about as that term has become, a repository for a plot without the words to back it up. It's a story that knows what strings to pull and drags the reader along for a great ride.(less)

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Feb 16, 2009 MD rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller

This is a topical thriller with a British Prime Minister politically based on Tony Blair (I have no idea about the personal stuff). At the beginning of his career he was nearly as popular as Obama. At the end, he was reviled as a puppet of the US. He is writing his memoirs, and naturally everyone wants to know the truth about the War on Terror--except, of course, those who don't want their secrets revealed. As thrillers go, this one is fairly low-key--more psychological than action. I really lik...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Kyle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another hit, and a reason to get into more of Harris' modern work - although I am really looking forward to Conspiracy when it comes out later this year. Keeping up with his writerly inclusion of other people's books at the head of each chapter (in this case Andrew Crofts' handbook Ghostwriting), Harris proves himself as writer very much in love with and indebted to reading. The ghost in this story lives up to his eponymous calling, for lack of any name for the main character, and seems to be a...more

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Dec 03, 2007 Don rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a standard thriller with the added spice of being very familiar to current headline readers. A British Prime Minister retires and looks forward to publishing his memoirs. However, his "ghost", a longtime aide finds some information that leads to the conclusion that the PM authorized, aided and abetted torture while in office. The literary "ghost" becomes a literal ghost under suspicious circumstances. An apolitical hack is brought in to finish the memoirs and that is when the scary stuff...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Reech Campillo rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recibí este libro durante los 12 días de regalos de iTunes y a quién le dan pan que llore? Pero la traducción gachupina me emboto el cerebelo y con frecuencia empezaba a pensar con sus expresiones gachupinas.

Otro punto desfavorable, desde mi muy personal punto de vista, es que yo vi el final de la adaptación cinematográfica, es decir, ya conocía el desenlace del nudo central del libro lo cual lo hizo más anodino a mis ojos.

En general diría que es un libro muy soso, salvo para los amantes de los...more

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Apr 12, 2009 Cat rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: political

Quite interesting, a ghostwriter and a political leader, turns into a mystery conspiracy at the end.

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Aug 06, 2011 Graham Tapper added it · review of another edition

A charismatic, almost fanatically pro US ex UK Prime Minister with a less than admired wife. Now who on Earth could we possibly be talking about???? Harris's novel takes a "What if..." approach to fictionally rewriting the story of Blair, for who else could it be, at the point where he is making his money on the back of his years in power.

Now he wants to tell his side of the story, not the least because he is to be charged at The Hague with war crimes over being complicit with the US in the ill...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it

Known for Fatherland (1992), Pompeii (**** Selection Mar/Apr 2004), and Imperium (*** Jan/Feb 2007), novelist Robert Harris opens his latest work with a derisive account of the publishing business. From there, it quickly gains momentum, merging a shrewd indictment of the war in Iraq with a literate, page-turning thriller. Harris, who was once a friend of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, offers a withering, barely disguised attack on Blair's policies and his collusion with the United Sta

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Jan 03, 2013 Leanne rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Even though I've seen The Ghost Writer so knew what was going to happen in the book, I couldn't put this down, it was so engrossing! And the movie is very true to the book. Although I recall being told at the time the movie came out that the Adam Lang character was based on Tony Blair, after finishing the book, I looked up Robert Harris on Wikipedia to find out what else he had written, and read this:

Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (a personal ac...more Even though I've seen The Ghost Writer so knew what was going to happen in the book, I couldn't put this down, it was so engrossing! And the movie is very true to the book. Although I recall being told at the time the movie came out that the Adam Lang character was based on Tony Blair, after finishing the book, I looked up Robert Harris on Wikipedia to find out what else he had written, and read this:

Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of British Prime Minister Tony Blair (a personal acquaintance) and a donor to New Labour, but the war in Iraq blunted his enthusiasm.[1] "We had our ups and downs, but we didn't really fall out until the invasion of Iraq, which made no sense to me," Harris has said.[2]
In 2007, after Blair resigned, Harris dropped his other work to write The Ghost. The title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances.
The dead man has been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister called Adam Lang, a thinly veiled version of Blair.[3] The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. Harris told The Guardian before publication: "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him." [4]
Harris said in a US National Public Radio interview that politicians like Lang and Blair, particularly when they have been in office for a long time, become divorced from everyday reality, read little and end up with a pretty limited overall outlook. When it comes to writing their memoirs, they therefore tend to have all the more need of a ghostwriter.
Harris hinted at a third, far less obvious, allusion hidden in the novel's title, and, more significantly, at a possible motive for having written the book in the first place. Blair, he said, had himself been ghostwriter, in effect, to President Bush when giving public reasons for invading Iraq: he had argued the case better than had the President himself.[5]
The New York Observer, headlining its otherwise hostile review The Blair Snitch Project, commented that the book’s "shock-horror revelation" was "so shocking it simply can’t be true, though if it were it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the recent history of Great Britain." [1]

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Aug 28, 2012 Sean Randall rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"If only Hitler had known he didn't need a whole air force to paralyse London, I thought: just a revved-up teenager with a bottle of bleach and a bag of weedkiller."

I can't quite say what about this book gripped me so, but I took it to bed after a movie (so we're talking fairly late anyway) and still read it in a single sitting.

"Everybody voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze."

The former PM is a very charismatic character indeed, which makes the revelations throughout the book st...more

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Dec 22, 2011 Melissa S. rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-suspense

A ghostwriter takes over the job of ghosting the memoirs of former British prime minister Adam Lang after Lang's former ghostwriter suddenly dies — and just as the Lang is charged with war crimes. Lang looks a lot like Tony Blair, & some of the issues attending Blair attend Lang, too: Lang has been a lapdog to U.S. interests in the "War on Terror." The question at the heart of this novel: Why?

The book is written in first person from the ghostwriter's POV, and it's as a writer that this ghos...more A ghostwriter takes over the job of ghosting the memoirs of former British prime minister Adam Lang after Lang's former ghostwriter suddenly dies — and just as the Lang is charged with war crimes. Lang looks a lot like Tony Blair, & some of the issues attending Blair attend Lang, too: Lang has been a lapdog to U.S. interests in the "War on Terror." The question at the heart of this novel: Why?

The book is written in first person from the ghostwriter's POV, and it's as a writer that this ghostwriter tells his story. For some people, Adam Lang is a political or a historical problem, but for the ghost, Adam Lang is a writer's problem: Political memoirs are dull, he tells us, but it's his object to make Lang's life come alive to the reader, even to invest it with meaning that Lang himself is blind to:

"I not only extract from people their life stories, I impart a shape to those lives that was often invisible; sometimes I give them lives they never even realized they had. If that isn't art, what is?"

And so he approaches the mysteries surrounding Lang also AS A WRITER, just as any writer approaches their characters and the stories they inhabit. It's this aspect of the tale that I especially enjoyed about the book. Aside from that, it's also beautifully written in terms of language, description, sense of place. A nice guide to wintertime Martha's Vineyard, I'm thinking. I was a little disappointed in the ending, which had a hurried feel to it, as if Harris had a deadline to meet and didn't have time to finish it as well as he would have liked — and for that I dock a star.

I downloaded this book to Kindle after seeing the Roman Polanski movie based on it — "The Ghostwriter" (2010) with Ewan McGregor as the ghost, Pierce Brosnan as Adam Lang, and Olivia Williams as Ruth Lang, the ex-PM's wife. Impeccable casting. I discovered on reading that the movie had followed the book fairly closely in some areas, but diverged in others for typical adaptation-to-screen reasons. In some cases the film's choices led to occasions of "huh? I don't think so!" (That plane ride between Cape Cod & Martha's Vineyard sure took a long time!) And the film also lacked the strong sense of "writer solving a writer's problems" that the book carried. But movies are always different from the books they adapt anyway — I enjoyed it as much as the book.(less)

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Oct 29, 2011 Carl rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 16, 2011 Jacquelynn Luben rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With serendipitous timing, my book circle read ‘The Ghost’ by Robert Harris, this month. Serendipitous, because the main character of the book is someone engaged to be the ghost writer of the ex-Prime Minister of the UK, who resembles to a certain extent our own ex-Prime Minister, Tony Blair. In the novel, he is accused of crimes relating to extraordinary rendition, which, of course, has been in the news again quite recently. In addition, we have just observed the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the...more

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Aug 02, 2011 Jesse rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Favorite Quotes:

● "Let you go," he said bitterly. "Yes, that's the modern euphemism, isn't it? As if it's a favor. You're clinging to the edge of a cliff and someone says, 'Oh, I'm terribly sorry, we're going to have to let you go.'"

● "It's amazing how cold and darkness conspire to alter everything."

● "And what they all have in common, these bad books, be they novels or memoirs, is this: they don't ring true. I'm not saying that a good book is necessarily, just that it feels true for the time yo...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Meghan rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

i don't know what to think about this book.

1.) it had kept me turning pages. i wasn't bored.

2.) the first half was interesting in the way it imagined a.) a ghostwriter's job and b.) the experience of former world leaders adjusting to life out of power.

3.) the second half was more of a conventional conspiracy/thriller/spy/detective story.

4.) as a roman-a-clef, it was easier to suspend your disbelief in the first half than in the second half. so in the first half you could easily imagine that the...more

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Dec 13, 2010 Boekenbuzz.nl rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Een Tony Blair-achtige voormalig premier van Engeland is zijn memoires aan het schrijven, als zijn ghostwriter op mysterieuze wijze sterft. Onze vertellende held, een andere ghostwriter, wordt ingehuurd om de klus af te maken. Maar er klopt iets niet.

Ten eerste wordt de ex-premier beschuldigd van oorlogsmisdaden, hij zou hebben bevolen dat vier verdachte terroristen gemarteld werden.
Ten tweede denkt onze held, de tweede ghostwriter dus, dat er iets vreemds is aan het concept van de eerste ghostw...more

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Aug 16, 2010 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 02, 2010 Rowland Bismark rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In The Ghost the unnamed narrator takes on -- for very good money -- the commission to 'ghost-write' the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang -- a PM whose term in office, actions, and family situation all bear a striking resemblance to those of Tony Blair.

The narrator is a professional ghostwriter, so it's not that extraordinary that he's called in for the job, but the circumstances are unusual. The man who originally had the gig, Michael McAra, died on the job, and the publisher...more

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Mar 26, 2010 Joanne rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, mystery

Read a movie review of The Ghost Writer and thought it sounded like a great story, confirmed by the idea that it's based on this book by Robert Harris, whom I've really liked (Fatherland, Enigma, Pompeii). There is no way I am going to go to a movie directed by Polanski the convicted child rapist.

Harris did not disappoint. This is a great espionage-like political thriller. Premise is that the ex-prime minister of Britain (modeled on Blair) is writing his memoirs on Martha's Vineyard, where the b...more

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Jun 02, 2012 Ape rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I stupidly thought this was the fella that wrote the Hannibal books. Different guy completely. Nevermind! This turned out to be quite an addictive tale, so I have soon rattled through it. I suppose in some ways it's just your standard summer thriller, with a bit of politics thrown in, but I thought it was quite well done. And I don't suppose it takes too much imagination to wonder where Harris got inspiration for his fictional ex prime minister Adam Lang and some of the mischeif he'd been up to....more

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Dec 30, 2010 Patrick Gibson rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: thrill_me_kill_me

I absolutely loved Harris' book ‘Pompeii’ about the last days of the city before Vesuvius got pissed and so tried ‘Ghost’ on that reputation alone. Not a fan of political thrillers I was curious to see how Harris would do. Ghost is no Pompeii,but I was pulled along by the story of a ghost writer who is hired to make deadline and quickly finish the memoirs of a charismatic British ex-Prime Minister after the previous ghost writer dies suspiciously. The British writer is out of his element in deso...more

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Sep 15, 2010 Azia rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mijn-bibliotheek, novel

*hadiah kuis ultah GRI ke-3*

Adam Lang, mantan perdana menteri Inggris, berniat menerbitkan autobiografi. Dia menyewa seorang penulis bayangan untuk menyelesaikan manuskrip biografinya. Sebelumnya McAra,ajudan setia dan menulis buku tersebut sebelumnya ditemukan tewas mengambang di laut. Penulis bayangan tersebut dengan bayaran 250.000 dollar diberikan waktu 1 bulan untuk menyelesaikan buku tersebut.

Adam Lang dihadapkan pada tuduhan serius, menyerahkan empat warga negara Inggris yang terkait den...more

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May 23, 2010 Jon rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I admired Conspirata so much (by the same author) that I decided to try this one, apparently written between that book and Imperium, the two about Cicero. This one is about a popular, now former, prime minister of England, who was driven from office for being a lap-dog of the Americans during the war in Iraq. Sound familiar? The ghost of the title is the first-person narrator, who has been hired to "ghost" the PM's memoirs, after his first ghostwriter has died under mysterious circumstances. The...more

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Jun 02, 2011 Kate Millin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well written in the first person, with the humour adding to the story rather than detracting from it. The twists in the story were interesting, and I did not anticipate some of them. Overall a good, quick read.

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

The narrator of Robert Harris' gripping new novel is a professional ghostwriter - cynical, mercenary, and with a nice line in deadpan humour. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celebr...more

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