The Ghost – by Robert Harris
Robert Harris’ latest novel “the Ghost is available for £2.99 when you buy The Times Newspaper at WHSmith, and according to various reviews I’ve read it is “truly thrilling” and an “intelligent thriller”, and is also “Compulsive reading” – Sounds good to me 
It is set in contemporary Britain against the background of international politics and is about a ghostwriter who specialises in writing celebrity biographies, who is assigned to write the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister named Adam Lang for £250,000.
However, all is not as it should be; A previous ghostwriter – a loyal colleague of Lang’s – has already died in mysterious circumstances while working on the project, and as work on the revised memoir gets under way, the ex-PM, Adam Lang, finds himself exiled in Martha’s Vinyard with a war crimes indictment hanging over him, Unable to return to Britain, having been branded a war-criminal, Lang flees to Washington to protest his innocence, where he encounters a mysterious shadowy right wing organisation lurking in the background, but what do they want with him….
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