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The Ghost

By: Robert Harris
Narrated by: Michael Jayston
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'An unputdownable thriller about corrupt power and sex' Sunday Telegraph

'Guaranteed to keep you awake' The Times

A body washes up on the deserted coastline of America's most exclusive holiday retreat. But it's no open-and-shut case of suicide. The death of Robert McAra is just the first piece of the jigsaw in an extraordinary plot that will shake the very foundations of international security.

For McAra was a man who knew too much. As ghostwriter to one of the most controversial men on the planet - Britain's former prime minister, holed up in a remote ocean-front house to finish his memoirs - he stumbled across secrets which cost him his life.

When a new ghostwriter is sent out to rescue the project it could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Or the start of a deadly assignment propelled by deception and intrigue - from which there will be no escape . . .

'Brilliantly persuasive, right up to the last page of its astonishing and unpredictable conclusion' Economist

'Truly thrilling' Sunday Times

 Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Haunted

Critic Reviews

A master of the intelligent thriller...The Ghost is Harris back on sparkling form
Truly thrilling
Robert Harris's latest thriller is more than a fun read: it is a super-duper, double fun bag-sized read thanks to his masterful plotting
Harris has written a remarkable thriller... He knows how to tell a story
The Ghost is arguably the finest novel yet to have emerged from the so-called Age of Terror... This is an important book about the major issues of our time
Absorbing... Compelling reading
A masterpiece of observation, interpretation and analysis
Robert Harris's bullet-paced thriller... [It's] impossible to put this book down
An elegant and highly readable thriller (Douglas Hurd)
A cracking good yarn... His writing is taut with wit and cleverness
All stars
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I loved this story. Robert Harris is my favourite historical novelist and Anton Lessor is always worth listening to.

Great listening. Especially the end.

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I'm so reluctant to provide a less than enthusiastic review especially of one of my very favourite books. If you are really, really fond of the written book as I am (I read it about five or six times a year, I just love it!) this audiobook may be a disappointment. While other reviewers have (accurately) focused on the accents, which are somewhat grating and inconsistent, my main difficulty was with the characterisation, in particular that of the (first person viewpoint) narrator. In the novel, this character is so very likeable - self-deprecating, ironic, poetic, brutally self-honest and funny. Unfortunately these endearing characteristics did not come across at all in the audiobook. I also often found it hard to tell the difference between narrative and dialogue for this character. Other characterisations also seemed somewhat lacking, particularly those for Amelia and Ruth (who is written as a very quick, sharp and incisive character but whose dialogue came across as very soft and slow). Listening to Audible a lot does spoil you - there are narrators, and there are voice actors, and a good voice actor who can consistently portray male and female characters, and cleanly switch from dialogue to narrative is essential for a novel like this one. Based on this performance, Mr Jayston's skills seem more likely to be in the narrative field. Audible, can you pretty please do another production of this .... :)

Honestly ... just read the novel

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