The Ghost is basically a political thriller which is so blatantly based on Tony Blair that even I couldn’t have missed the connection. He settles for jostling for time so that he can gather information and make up his mind, but the situation continues to heat up and his time starts to run very short indeed. Should he just do the job he was hired to do and write the book or should he go after the truth? The first option would make his wealthy, but a traitor to his conscience the second might just be suicide. This puts him in direct conflict with his job and his conscience. He begins to dig and isn’t sure he likes what he finds. Suddenly the priority switches from writing the memoires to practicing damage control for Lang.Īs the novel progresses, the Ghost begins to try and piece Lang’s stories together with known facts about him and keeps coming up short. As the Americans don’t recognize this law, they cannot be held to account, but Lang, as an Englishman, can be tried for his offenses. Just after beginning with the book, all hell breaks loose as Lang is accused of working with the Americans by approving the transfer of British citizens to Gitmo in clear violation of international law. He knows that his predecessor is dead and that he cannot be certain that his death was a natural one, so he goes into the situation knowing that he needs to be careful. The new Ghost is never named, but nevertheless serves as the narrator throughout the book. A replacement is procured and he becomes The Ghost who tells the story of writing Lang’s memoires. Only not all too far into the project, the “ghost” dies after falling off a bridge.
Ranger's Apprentice: Kings of Clonmel - AB.Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary.Bryant and May and the Memory of Blood - AB.The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack - AB.
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Bryant and May and the Invisible Code - AB.PS to Trish: I’m set for the next Classics Challenge :0) We need to read to be happy, healthy people, yes? Also, I’ll be saving tons of gas by not going to work or walking the dogs, and possibly by not eating, so that alone will cover it. Even if I don’t feel like holding up a book, I can listen to one. My justification is that I’ll be laid up for the next two to three weeks and will need something to listen to. The Purple Emperor by Herbie Brennen – Light entertainment The Pilgrim of Hate by Ellis Peters – Good fluffĮye of the Needle by Ken Follet – I liked the other two I’ve read by him, but I’m not sure this will be the same caliber Smiley’s People by John Le Carre – Another need to have tried author He later books really have gone down hill and they were only good fluff at the best of times. The Cat Who Moved A Mountain by Lillian Jackson Braun – I’m worried about this one. The Cruellest Month by Louise Penny – Sounded good The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf – I liked “To the Lighthouse”Ī Personal Devil by Roberts Gellis – Sounded good The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky – See Aboveĭon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes – Another need to read The Death of Ivan Illyich by Leo Tolstoy - I really ought to read some Russiansīleak House by Charles Dickens - This particular version has been on my wish list for ages Silas Marner by George Elliot - This is another of my “Need to Reads” Howard’s End by EM Forster - The story sounds good Again, fortunately many were with narrators I didn’t care for, so I was curbed a bit by that, but there were no “we are not authorized to sell this book in your region” books, so that limit got lost. It’s bad enough that Audible just had another $5 sale from which I bought a few – fortunately they weren’t licensed to sell many of them in my region, so I bought fewer than I would have – but now they went and had a $9 classics sale and there were so many of them I wanted.
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