Ghost, The

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

Britain’s former prime minister is holed up in a remote, ocean-front house in America, struggling to finish his memoirs, when his long-term assistant drowns. A professional ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project – a man more used to working with fading rock stars and minor celebrities than ex-world leaders. The ghost soon discovers that his distinguished new client has secrets in his past that are returning to haunt him – secrets with the power to kill. Robert Harris is once again at his gripping best with the most controversial new thriller of the decade.

Author Biography
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.

Reviews
Truly thrilling,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,A cracking good yarn… His writing is taut with wit and cleverness,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,A masterpiece of observation, interpretation and analysis,An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex, written with an insider’s mischievous intimacy,Brilliantly persuasive, right up to the last page of its astonishing and unpredictable conclusion,Absorbing… Compelling reading,Harris has written a remarkable thriller… He knows how to tell a story,Robert Harris’s bullet-paced thriller… [It’s] impossible to put this book down,An elegant and highly readable thriller,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,Intelligent, perceptive and enormous fun,The most fun I've had with a novel in ages,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.