The Ghost Writer - A Novel

Robert Harris

Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group (Paperback)

2010

335 páginas

11h 10m

ISBN-13: 9781439190555

An eerily timely thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder from bestselling author Robert Harris.

“The moment I heard how McAra died, I should have walked away. I can see that now. . . .”

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under shocking circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job.

It’s not just his predecessor’s mysterious death that haunts him, but Adam Lang himself. Deep in Lang’s past are buried shocking secrets . . . secrets with the power to alter world politics . . . secrets with the power to kill.

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Achei que seria mais excitante!

Este livro, que agora teve seu título alterado para "The ghost writer" virou, recentemente, um filme dirigido por Roman Polanski e protagonizado por Pierce Brosnam e Ewan Macgregor. Achei que seria um daqueles suspenses que nos fazem querer chegar logo ao desfecho da estória. Me enganei! Embora seja uma narrativa interessante, foi contada, de uma forma monótona que só se torna excitante nas 100 últimas páginas. Como foi escolhido por Stephen King como um dos melhores thrillers de 2007, esperava algo muito mais excitante, adjetivo que, definitivamente, não serve para defini-lo! Talvez o filme consiga superar a monotonia do livro!