The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghost-writer, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances.
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- ISBN 978-0091796266 (first edition, hardback)- ISBN 978-0-091-79625-9 (second edition, paperback)
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- The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghost-writer, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances. The dead man has been ghosting the autobiography of a recently unseated British prime minister. The latter is one Adam Lang, a thinly-disguised version of Blair. The fictional counterpart of Cherie Blair is depicted as a sinister manipulator of her husband. So astonishing are the implied allegations of the roman à clef that, had it concerned a lesser figure and were Harris a less eminent novelist, Britain's libel laws may have rendered publication impossible. Harris told The Guardian before publication: "The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him. " The thriller acquires an added frisson from the fact that Harris was an early and enthusiastic backer of Blair and a donor to New Labour funds. The New York Observer, headlining its otherwise hostile review The Blair Snitch Project, commented that the book’s "shock-horror revelation" was "so shocking it simply can’t be true, though if it were it would certainly explain pretty much everything about the recent history of Great Britain."
- Ghost (Original – The Ghost) ist ein Roman des britischen Schriftstellers Robert Harris. In diesem Thriller wird die Arbeit eines Ghostwriter thematisiert, der durch Neugier und Vorbestimmung in Lebensgefahr kommt. Das Buch erschien 2007 unter dem englischen Originaltitel The Ghost bei Hutchinson/Random House, die deutsche Übersetzung im selben Jahr im Heyne-Verlag. Übersetzt hat Wolfgang Müller.
- Il ghostwriter è un romanzo thriller a sfondo politico scritto da Robert Harris. L'affaire, apparentemente complesso e di difficile decifrazione, viene narrato con grande chiarezza e semplicità da Harris, consentendo una lettura agevole anche da parte del lettore comune, il quale ne trae, al di là dell'ovvia avvertenza che si tratta di un'opera di fantasia, una inquietante sensazione di veridicità e di analogia con nomi e fatti dell'attualità politica.
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- Cover of the first US edition
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- 384 pp (first edition, hardback)- 310pp (second edition, paperback)
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- The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghost-writer, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just drowned in gruesome and mysterious circumstances.
- Ghost (Original – The Ghost) ist ein Roman des britischen Schriftstellers Robert Harris. In diesem Thriller wird die Arbeit eines Ghostwriter thematisiert, der durch Neugier und Vorbestimmung in Lebensgefahr kommt. Das Buch erschien 2007 unter dem englischen Originaltitel The Ghost bei Hutchinson/Random House, die deutsche Übersetzung im selben Jahr im Heyne-Verlag. Übersetzt hat Wolfgang Müller.
- Il ghostwriter è un romanzo thriller a sfondo politico scritto da Robert Harris. L'affaire, apparentemente complesso e di difficile decifrazione, viene narrato con grande chiarezza e semplicità da Harris, consentendo una lettura agevole anche da parte del lettore comune, il quale ne trae, al di là dell'ovvia avvertenza che si tratta di un'opera di fantasia, una inquietante sensazione di veridicità e di analogia con nomi e fatti dell'attualità politica.
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