I have read Imperium and also Archangel from Robert Harris.
Very rarely I read more than one book from the same author and now I also have read The Ghost
How many memoirs hit the street every month from many famous celebrities do you think they wrote their Memoir themselves. Most probably they got a ghostwriter to help.
Ghost is a story of a Ghostwriter who is enlisted to do a memoir of a former British Prime Minister.
The ex PM is in US and the ghostwriter travels to US and simultaneously allegation against ex-PM is getting increased.
The Ghostwriter finds out what the previous collaborator of the memoir is up to and that opens a bag of worms.
A good novel to take you to the life of a Ghostwriters and also the life of a politician who now no longer has power. Also political thriller a forte of Robert Harris
Couple of things were cinematic and few things were just accidental like the car ride to meet one person.
Now that I have read few novels of Robert Harris I know the pattern
- The protagonist is not the Hero, he is an observer and is usually middle aged.
- The protagonist rubs the villain in the wrong side unaware that he is a dangerous person
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