The Ghost by Robert Harris - ISBN: 9780099527497
Paperback
Secrets kill. A ghostwriter unearths the truth. His life ends.

The Ghost

From the Sunday Times bestselling author

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    3 July 2008

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Summary

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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099527497
ISBN-10:0099527499
Author:Robert Harris
Publisher:Cornerstone
Imprint:Arrow Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:3 July 2008
Weight:286g
Dimensions:197mm x 127mm x 26mm
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Critics Review

Truly thrilling

A master of the intelligent thriller… The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form * The Times *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 *A cracking good yarn… His writing is taut with wit and cleverness * Financial Times *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 *A masterpiece of observation, interpretation and analysis * Independent on Sunday *An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex, written with an insider’s mischievous intimacy * 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 *Absorbing… Compelling reading * Observer *Harris has written a remarkable thriller… He knows how to tell a story * Sunday Telegraph *

About The Author

Robert Harris

Robert Harris is the author of sixteen 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, The Second Sleep, V2, Act of Oblivion and Precipice. His work has been translated into forty languages and nine of his books have been adapted for cinema and television. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.

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