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The Ghost | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Harris
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 53
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0099527499
EAN: 9780099527497
ASIN: 0099527499
Publication Date: July 3, 2008
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 Ghost -Robert Harris August 24, 2008
O. ADIGUN-HARRIS (Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book again by Robert Harris, like all his previous fiction I found it insightful. I believe it has been cleverly written to lead the readers into constantly seeing Adam Lang has Tony Blair but that is part of the beauty of the writing, because for me its brings readers into the complexities of being a ghost writer and the emotions that was involved. He became an unwilling confidant and was left with the burden of the truth and the dangers that went with the knowledge. A beautifully crafted and intriguing story.
The Ghost August 17, 2008
NoWireHangers (Sweden)
The hero in "The Ghost" in an unnamed ghostwriter, who takes over the job as ghostwriter for British ex-prime minister Adam Lang, after the previous ghostwriter, Mike McAra, died mysteriously. Our ghost hero travels to Martha's Vineyard where Lang is staying, and while the ghost tries to meet his deadline, Adam Lang is accused of war crimes and the ghost happens upon some of McAra's research, he realizes Lang may be hiding something.
The book is written in first person, and it's well written, often funny. The book kept my interest and at first the ending seemed like a bit of an anticlimax, but it eventually delivered, but not in the way I had expected. "The Ghost" may not appeal to all thriller fans but I found it enjoyed it.
 Great story August 12, 2008
Mr. A. Kenyon (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fantastic read, one of the best books I've read for a few years, couldn't put it down. I'd love to hear which books the people slagging this book off recommend.
 Tony and Cherie get knifed by a former friend... August 6, 2008
Hanglemez Pallaccini (Quito, Ecuador)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One star for attempting to satirise Tony and Cherie Blair; his real life Downing Street "assistant" Anji Hunter; and a hilarious Robin Cook. But we already know that what Tony and Cherie were like after 10 years, didn't we? So not anything new except for some genuinely funny lines (especially by "Robin Cook").
And one more star for giving us some interesting insights into the world of ghostwriting and the process of creating celebrity/political memoirs (and to think that I thought Jordan, Wayne Rooney et al wrote every word themselves...)
But as a political conspiracy thriller? Oh dear. Robert Harris might have fallen out with Tony over Iraq but his critique really doesn't work as a fictional thriller. It's rather weak and underwritten. With one of the stupidest, cliched, twist endings I've read. Maybe he should have read the manual on thriller writing instead of the ghost writing one that he quotes.
If he wants to stick the knife into his former friends with some wishful fantasies, then fine...I'm all for some tabloid celebrity falling out...but don't bother if you want some real satire. Just watch an old rerun of one of Rory Bremner's spoofs on Iraq which really do hit the mark.
So don't be taken in by the hype that the literary/political classes have given to this book - for ultimately, will this stand the test of time? No. It's already dated and showing its age as a political satire. And it's just lousy as a thriller.
 a shoddy political whodunnit August 2, 2008
R. A. Greenaway
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Don't waste your money on this poor excuse for a political whodunnit.The plot is poor and the ending is even worse. Harris has written some good novels,however, this is not one of them.
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