· ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages/5. Robert Harris may have written a fiction novel, but it is so close to the truth that it is quite frightening. Such a superb writer Mr. Harris is. I felt his intense feelings for the wrongs committed during the Prime Minister's tenure as well as some pity. He graciously humanized him and yet had the tenacity and courage to bring forth the lame /5(K). · ROBERT HARRIS is the author of nine best-selling novels: Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, Imperium, The Ghost Writer, Conspirata, The Fear Index, and An Officer and a Spy. Several of his books have been adapted to film, most recently The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into thirty-seven languages/5.
Robert Harris' Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis) was one of the last century's finest novels in my estimation. In 'The Ghost,' Harris again shows that he's a master of conjuring up wonderfully almost-real-life experiences and playing them out in thrilling, suspenseful narratives. The narrator of Robert Harris' The Ghost is a ghost-writer of celebrity autobiographies whose agent approaches him with an unexpected offer. A former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, is in need of a writer for his memoirs. The previous writer, a former aide to the PM, has died suddenly in an accident and with the publisher's deadline looming they urgently need a replacement to complete. Robert Harris is the author of fourteen 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 and www.doorway.rul of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was.
The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form, bringing the politics of today alive with a lot more mischief, venom and magic than he applied to those of 2, years ago. As he insists, The Ghost is fiction, but it is fiction that feels like fact. And that’s what puts the thrill into "thriller".". It is paced differently from most books. At times it is a total page-turner, then it slows down and is easy to put down for whatever reason I had to do something else. A ghost writer is given the contract to rewrite a former England PM's memoirs. As he gets involved in the book, he finds more and more contradictions. The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In , the novel was adapted into a film, The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski and starring Pierce Brosnan, for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay.
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