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The Ghost by Robert Harris
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The Ghost (original 2007; edition 2010)

by Robert Harris

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Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.
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Title:The Ghost
Authors:Robert Harris
Info:Cornerstone Digital (2010), Edition: Film Tie-In, Kindle Edition, 418 pages
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The Ghost by Robert Harris (2007)

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 Crime, Thriller & Mystery: Ghost4 unread / 4ABVR, July 2011

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  davidrgrigg | Mar 23, 2024 |
The book is as good as the movie version (The Ghost Writer). Loved the plot and the narration is thoroughly engrossing. ( )
  harishwriter | Oct 12, 2023 |
Thinly veiled fictionalised Tony Blair. Adam Lang, former pm is in US and writing his memoir and his publisher wants a ghost-writer to polish it, but the first one dies in suspicious circumstances and a replacement is hired. ( )
  edwardsgt | Jul 13, 2023 |
Gripping. I didn't remember reading it the first time though. ( )
  tarsel | Sep 4, 2022 |
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Ik ben niet ik: jij bent niet hij of zij: zij zijn niet zij.

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The moment I heard how McAra died, I should have walked away.
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Originally published as The Ghost, after being adapted as the film The Ghost Writer, the novel was also published as The Ghost Writer.
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Having served as Great Britain's longest-enduring prime minister, Adam Lang accepts a large cash advance to write a tell-all memoir of his life and controversial political career, an effort for which he hires a ghostwriter who uncovers dangerous secrets about the former leader's term.

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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.

Tense, gripping, and savvy, The Ghost Writer puts forth all the author’s long-term know-how about high stakes politics, journalism, and governmental deception. Set in America, on Martha’s Vineyard,
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When you are a ghost
You learn some haunting secrets
Who you gonna call?
(starwing)

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