The New York Timesâbestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium âhits one out of the park with this dark paranoid thriller. . . . an intelligent page turnerâ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murderânow a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.
The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under mysterious circumstances, and his replacementâwhose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idolsâknows little about Langâs inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Marthaâs Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job.
Itâs not just his predecessorâs mysterious death that haunts him, but Adam Lang himself. Deep in Langâs past are buried shocking secrets. Secrets with the power to alter world politics. Secrets with the power to kill.
âThe Ghost has got the goods.â âStephen King, #1 New York Timesâbestselling author
âA master of the intelligent thriller.â âThe Times (London)
âRemarkable.â âSunday Telegraph (London)
âRobert Harrisâs latest thriller is more than a fun read: it is a super-duper, double fun bag-sized read thanks to his masterful plotting.â âDaily Telegraph (London)