The ghost [sound recording]
Harris, Robert, 1957-200710UU
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Adam Lang has been Britain's prime minister. And now that he's left office, a cash advance to compose a tell-all memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal. 'The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, "Rick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, I don't like the sound of it," finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, Rick - I often thought he should have been the writer and I the agent - that once he'd started talking there was never any question I wouldn't listen, and by the time he had finished, I was done for.' Adam Lang has been Britain's longest serving - and most controversial - prime minister of the last half century. And now that he's left office, he's accepted one of history's largest cash advances to compose a tell-all (or at least, tell-some) memoir of his life and years of power. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this magnum opus, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics, secrets with the power to kill. Set in America, on Martha's Vineyard, "The Ghost" is Harris's finest foray into political fiction since "Archangel" and brings the listener face to face with some of the biggest issues of our time. The result is gripping and genuinely thrilling.
Main title:
The ghost [sound recording] / Robert Harris; Read by Robert Glenister.
Work:
Type of file:
CD-Audio
Imprint:
London : Random House Audiobooks, 2007.
Collation:
(385 min) ; 13x14x2 cm.
Notes:
CD-Audio; Audiobook.
Biography/History:
Robert Harris is the author Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii and Imperium - all of which were worldwide bestsellers. His work has been translated into thirty-three languages. He was born in Nottingham in 1957 and is a graduate of Cambridge University. He worked as a reporter on the BBC's Newsnight and Panorama programmes, before becoming Political Editor of the Observer in 1987, and then a columnist on the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph. In 2003 he was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He lives near Hungerford in Berkshire with his wife and their four children.
ISBN:
97818465709641846570964
Dewey class:
AF
Language:
English
BRN:
57122