The Ghost - Softcover

Robert Harris

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9780099527497: The Ghost

Synopsis

'A master of the intelligent thriller…The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form' The Times

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About the Author

Robert Harris is the author of Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium, all of which were international bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages. After graduating with a degree in English from Cambridge University, he worked as a reporter for the BBC s Panorama and Newsnight programmes, before becoming political editor of the Observer and subsequently a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. He is married to Gill Hornby and they live with their four children in a village near Hungerford.

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

A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America s most exclusive holiday retreat. But it s no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations of international security.

For McAra was a man who knew too much. As ghostwriter to one of the most controversial men on the planet - Britain s former prime minster, holed up in a remote ocean-front house to finish his memoirs he stumbled across secrets which cost him his life.

When a new ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Or the start of a deadly assignment propelled by deception and intrigue from which there will be no escape

Truly thrilling Sunday Times

A tense thriller of the kind Harris does better than anybody else Mail on Sunday

Brilliantly persuasive, right up to the last page of its astonishing and unpredictable conclusion Books of the Year, Economist

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