The Ghost by Robert Harris - Book Review

Adam Lang is a former British prime minister who took Britain to war in the middle east in support of American allies. Sound familiar? Well, it's supposed to. Robert Harris's disenchantment with New Labour is well documented and it is impossible to read this book without regularly thinking of another ex-prime minister. Lang also possesses a pushy wife, yet oddly I never once equated her with another.Lang's memoirs are being produced by a ghost writer; a process that is rudely interrupted when he is found washed up on the beach at Martha's Vineyard. Step forward the replacement writer, who, writing in the first person, I couldn't help imaging was Robert Harris himself. Not for the first time in this book the lines between fact and fiction were becoming blurred. That can be dangerous.One can only speculate at the real reason behind this book. Surely Robert Harris is beyond needing some form of controversy, forced or otherwise, to sell his superb books. I did get the impression
it had been written in something of a hurry, and released in a similar vein.All that said though, The Ghost serves once again to remind us that Mister Harris has few equals when it comes to writing this genre of book. I loved all his previous works and read this one in record time, for me. The pace is bordering on the reckless, and it really was difficult to put down, even when my eyelids were demanding to be closed.If you read and enjoyed Harris's previous books, you will probably enjoy this one too. If you are new to Robert Harris and his creative imagination, I would start with something else. That is six novels I make it from this gifted writer, but good though it is, I would still rank it at number six, which says more for the quality of his previous work, rather than any weakness to be found here. It is a very good and enjoyable book, and streets ahead of many of his rivals.The Ghost by Robert Harris.ISBN: 978-0091796266

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