The Ghost (novel)
Ghost ( original English Title: The Ghost ) is a novel by British writer Robert Harris.
In this thriller is the work of a ghostwriter is identified, the device through curiosity in mortal danger. The book appeared in 2007 under the original English title The Ghost at Hutchinson / Random House, the German translation in the same year by Heyne Verlag. Translated has Wolfgang Müller.
Action
The narrator is a London ghostwriter who completely surprising given the offer, the memoirs of the former prime minister Adam Lang ( which can be seen clearly as Tony Blair) to write. He ruled Britain longer than any other Prime Minister before. For his memoirs long to get from an American publisher $ 10 million. This, however, under two conditions: The book will be published within two years and to relentlessly long report on the period of terror. For long had hired his former adviser Michael McAra as a ghostwriter. To advance the project, Lang had retired with his wife, his private secretary and ghostwriter on vacation headquarters of his publisher on Martha 's Vineyard. But then McAra was found drowned.
The new ghostwriter - actually an expert on show stars and athletes - to finish the boring manuscript McAras in a few weeks and under the utmost secrecy. When he travels to Lang's whereabouts on Martha 's Vineyard, messages are disseminated in the media, that long is to be brought before the war crimes court in The Hague. The situation is for the Ghost Writer thereby still strained, at the same time, the publisher that the book will be completed more quickly in order to benefit from the expected hype. As the ghostwriter encounters in talks with Lang on inconsistencies and random finds documents contradict the representations Lang, he sets out to investigate itself. He discovered what his predecessor had apparently found out at the expense of his life: that Lang is deeply involved with the CIA and is therefore added in all Washington. A publication of this information would have geopolitical consequences. The Ghost Writer must therefore fear for his life.
Filming
The novel was made into a film by Roman Polanski in 2010 under the title The Ghost Writer.
Expenditure
- Robert Harris: The Ghost Writer. Roman ( "The ghost "). Heyne, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-453-50380-9 ( over, by Wolfgang Müller). Robert Harris: The Ghost Writer. Audiobook ( "The ghost "). Abridged reading. Random House Audio, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86604-706-8 (6 CDs, read by Hannes Jaenicke ).
- Robert Harris: The ghost. Audio book. Random House Audio, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-8465-7096-4 (5? CDs, read by Robert Glenister ).