Review by Brian Lowen on 5th Feb 09
Shortlisted for ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards.
Not your normally accepted type of ghost but a ghost writer, a writer who writes an autobiography for a famous person.
Description on cover: “One man will uncover the world’s biggest conspiracy”
I found this a somewhat over-rated description.
The ghost writer is employed to re-write the memoirs of Adam Lang – ex prime minister of the UK, the previous ghost writer having mysteriously met his death.
Adam Lang is staying at a millionaire’s summer mansion at ‘Martha’s Vineyard’, an island off the eastern coast of America near to Boston. He is staying there with his entourage of secretaries, p.a., and police protection officers as he is expecting a summons to attend the international criminal court but he is safe in the USA as they do not recognise this court. He has been impeached by his former foreign secretary for authorising the SAS to capture 4 alleged terrorists in Pakistan & hand them over to the CIA for interrogation involving torture – an illegal act.
Our ghost writer works through the manuscript previously prepared by the dead ghost writer and discovers anomalies and peculiarities which indicate that Adam Lang was actually a CIA agent and was pushing the UK into even greater collaboration with the USA during his term in office.
He relied a lot on his wife in his work and it eventually turns out that it was she who was the CIA agent.
This is ‘the world’s biggest conspiracy’ but I’m afraid it left me rather cold.
Rather than a thriller I found the book more like a documentary. A thriller that didn’t thrill me.
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