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  • Published: 3 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099527497
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

The Ghost

From the Sunday Times bestselling author




FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex' Sunday Telegraph

'Guaranteed to keep you awake' The Times

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 minister, 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 . . .

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

'Truly thrilling' Sunday Times

  • Published: 3 July 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099527497
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

About the author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of thirteen bestselling novels: the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich and The Second Sleep. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby. His next book, V2, is coming out in autumn 2020.

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Praise for The Ghost

Truly thrilling

Sunday Times

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

Harris has written a remarkable thriller... He knows how to tell a story

Sunday Telegraph

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

Absorbing... Compelling reading

Observer

A masterpiece of observation, interpretation and analysis

Independent on Sunday

Robert Harris's bullet-paced thriller... [It's] impossible to put this book down

Literary Review

An elegant and highly readable thriller

Douglas Hurd, Spectator

A cracking good yarn... His writing is taut with wit and cleverness

Financial Times

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

Intelligent, perceptive and enormous fun

Guardian

The most fun I've had with a novel in ages

Nicholas Blincoe, Books of the Year, New Statesman

An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex, written with an insider's mischievous intimacy

Simon Sebag Montefiore, Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph

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

Books of the Year, Economist

Knee-deep in intrigue and bristling with incident... An edgy journey through the dark corridors of power, a witty portrait of political and literary falsehoods, and a masterclass in gripping storytelling, Harris's dynamic novel is a page-turner of the old school.

Sunday Times Culture

A master of the intelligent thriller... The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form

The Times

Truly thrilling

Sunday Times