| 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
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‘The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now…’
The narrator of Robert Harris’s 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 celebrities, he jumps at the chance to ghost the memoirs of Britain’s former prime minister, especially as it means flying to the American resort of Martha’s Vineyard in the middle of winter and finishing the book in the seclusion of a luxurious house.
But it doesn’t take him long to realise he has made a terrible mistake. His predecessor on the project died in circumstances that were distinctly suspicious, and the ex-prime minister turns out to be a man with secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him – secrets with the power to kill.
The Times has called Robert Harris ‘the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller’. The Ghost is his most compelling novel yet.
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| A cracking good yarn… His writing is taut with wit and cleverness
Financial Times
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| A master of the intelligent thriller…The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form
The Times
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| A masterpiece of observation, interpretation and analysis
Independent on Sunday
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| Absorbing… Compelling reading
Observer
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| An elegant and highly readable thriller
Douglas Hurd Spectator
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| Harris’s feel for political manoeuvring is buttressed by a strong sense of place and good fast pacing which the craftsman sustains to the final page
Times Literary Supplement
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| Harris has written a remarkable thriller… He knows how to tell a story
Sunday Telegraph
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| Intelligent, perceptive and enormous fun
Guardian
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| Robert Harris’s bullet-paced thriller… [It’s] impossible to put this book down
Literary Review
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| 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
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| Truly thrilling
Sunday Times
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Hutchinson • Modern fiction • Previous
ISBN: 0091796261
Publication date: 04/10/2007 • 320 pages • Royal Octavo • EAN: 9780091796266 |
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