The Ghost » (Unabridged)

Robert Harris is the author of Pompeii, Enigma, and Fatherland. He has been a television correspondent with the BBC and a newspaper columnist for the London Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph. His novels have sold more than ten million copies and been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Berkshire, England, with his wife and four children.

A THRILLER OF POWER, POLITICS, CORRUPTION AND MURDER

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.

The Barnes & Noble Review

The Ghost, the entertaining and sometimes exasperating political thriller by Robert Harris, about a former British prime minister trapped in a web of lies, starts out with a whopper of its own. Before the first sentence, on the copyright page, there it is: "Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental."

Oh, puhleeze.