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Simon & Schuster Audio, March 2010
Abridged Compact Disk, 5 disks
ISBN-10: 0743583043
ISBN-13: 9780743583046
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The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the client is a major political figure, and the truth could change the course of history? Adam Lang, the controversial former prime minister of Britain, is writing his memoirs. But his first ghostwriter dies under shocking circumstances, and his replacement—whose experience lies in portraying aging rock stars and film idols—knows little about Lang’s inner circle. Flown to join Lang in a secure house on the remote shores of Martha’s Vineyard in the depths of winter, cut off from everyone and everything he knows, he comes to realize he should never have taken the job. It’s not just his predecessor’s mysterious death that haunts him, but Adam Lang himself. Deep in Lang’s past are buried shocking secrets . . . secrets with the power to alter world politics . . . secrets with the power to kill.
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"Packed with seduction, power and manipulation. . . ."
-- USA Today
"The Ghost has got the goods."
-- Stephen King
American Prospect, March 29, 2010
...Random House emerged from a four-day auction with a $9 million deal for Tony Blair's memoirs -- Robert Harris published his sixth novel, The Ghost. It centers on a cynical, self-aware ghostwriter who must finish the memoirs of a former ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 19, 2010
...Roman Polanski's terrific new thriller The Ghost Writer deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies like Repulsion (1965), Rosemary's Baby (1969) and Chinatown (1974): His singular knack for taking pulp ...
WBRZ, March 19, 2010
...Movie Review: Polanski casts well in 'Ghost Writer' SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT Pierce Brosnan in The Ghost Writer Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Eli Wallach Crew: Director, Roman Polanski; Writers, Roman ...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, March 19, 2010
...Roman Polanski’s terrific new thriller “The Ghost Writer” deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies such as “Repulsion” (1965), “Rosemary’s Baby” (1969) and “Chinatown” (1974): His singular ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 14, 2010
...Based on a 2007 novel by Robert Harris, The Ghost Writer concerns a former British prime minister named Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who definitely is not a slightly fictionalized version of Tony Blair, so don't even ...
Rye Record, March 12, 2010
...'The Ghost Writer' is Roman Polanski's new thriller, possibly the only one we'll see this year that was edited in a Swiss prison. Based by Robert Harris on his own ...
Examiner.com, March 5, 2010
...very skeptical of politicians. So it seems fitting that he was cast in the Roman Polanski thriller "The Ghost Writer" as an unnamed writer who is hired to complete a memoir by a fictional former British prime minister named Adam Lang (played ...
Bohemian, March 5, 2010
...The setting of Roman Polanski's freezer-burned comedy/thriller The Ghost Writer is a brutal concrete bunker. Here, several people are trapped under constant surveillance beneath cold and stormy skies. The bunker is beachfront property on a ...
Mountain View Voice, March 5, 2010
...the story is in the telling than Roman Polanski. The director's 18th feature, the conspiracy yarn "The Ghost Writer," exudes excellence in its confident rhythm and incisive attention to intellect and emotion. Above all, there's an ineffable ...
CBC, March 5, 2010
...Roman Polanski returns with a searing psychological thriller A ghost writer (Ewan McGregor) uncovers dark secrets when he is hired to finish the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) in Roman Polanski's The Ghost ...
Denver Post, March 5, 2010
...Kim Cattrell and Ewan McGregor in 'The Ghost Writer.' (Summit Entertainment ) Roman Polanski's been in the news a lot lately but not for the best of reasons. Between his September arrest in Switzerland and the media rehashing ...
Detroit News, March 5, 2010
...very existence, an existence that, on the scant evidence provided in Roman Polanski's rich new film, 'The Ghost Writer,' is otherwise fairly hollow. The Ghost -- the character has no other name -- is played by Ewan McGregor; and he's a ...
Metronews, March 5, 2010
...The Ghost Writer Director: Roman Polanski Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Ewan McGregor Classification: STC Rating: ****1/2 It’s difficult to watch Roman Polanski’s gripping and enjoyable new thriller, The Ghost Writer , without ...
Miami Herald, March 4, 2010
...Chinatown: His singular knack for taking pulp and transforming it into tense, paranoid drama. Based on a 2007 Robert Harris novel, the story follows a writer known only as The Ghost (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to rewrite the political ...
Central Utah Daily Herald, March 4, 2010
...(Left to right) PIERCE BROSNAN and EWAN McGREGOR star in THE GHOST WRITER Loading… Roman Polanski's terrific new thriller "The Ghost Writer" deftly reminds us that Polanski has a singular knack for taking pulp fiction and transforming it ...
Paste Magazine, February 26, 2010
...Director: Roman Polanski Writers: Polanski (screenplay), Robert Harris (novel and adaptation) Cinematographer: Pawel Edelman Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, Kim Cattrall, Timothy Hutton, Tom Wilkinson, Eli Wallach ...
HeraldNet, February 26, 2010
...1974): His singular knack for taking pulp and transforming it into tense, paranoid drama. Based on a 2007 Robert Harris novel, the story follows a writer known only as The Ghost (Ewan McGregor) who is hired to rewrite the political memoirs ...
Miami Herald, February 26, 2010
...Roman Polanski's terrific new thriller "The Ghost Writer" deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies like "Repulsion" (1965), "Rosemary's Baby" (1969) and "Chinatown" (1974): His singular knack for taking pulp ...
Lower Hudson Online, February 26, 2010
...Roman Polanski's terrific new thriller 'The Ghost Writer' deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies like 'Repulsion' (1965), 'Rosemary's Baby' (1969) and 'Chinatown' (1974): His singular knack for taking pulp ...
San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2010
...and Kim Cattrall. Directed by Roman Polanski. (R. 128 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) A tone pervades 'The Ghost Writer' that's so precise and peculiar that it feels like the mark of a philosophy. This tone, one of unease and distance, tells ...
Seattle Times, February 25, 2010
...Roman Polanski's terrific new thriller, "The Ghost Writer," deftly reminds us what has long made the director so effective, in movies like "Repulsion" (1965), "Rosemary's Baby" (1968) and "Chinatown" (1974): His singular knack for taking ...
San Jose Mercury News, February 25, 2010
...EWAN MCGREGOR stars in THE GHOST WRITER Movie showtimes, info ROMAN POLANSKI'S been in the news a lot lately, but not for the best of reasons. Between his September arrest in Switzerland and the media ...
Chicago Tribune, February 24, 2010
...Brosnan and Ewan McGregor describe it, there was no need for the cast of Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" to have long, philosophical discussions about the movie's creepy real-life parallels. It wasn't necessary, for example, to dissect ...
Adfero, February 22, 2010
...Crazy Heart climbed one place to eighth as awards season helps the Jeff Bridges film gain momentum. The Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski's adaptation of the Robert Harris novel, made an impressive $179,000 (£115,705) despite opening on only ...
Time, February 20, 2010
...Kim Cattrall, left, Olivia Williams, and Pierce Brosnan star in The Ghost Writer We're all in hiding: from people who would harm us; from our deepest, darkest selves; from the slow or abrupt intrusion of death. If we emerge from our ...
CBS 6, February 19, 2010
...Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer." What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a faithful, ...
Wicked Local Fall River, February 19, 2010
...Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in “The Ghost Writer.” What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a ...
Slate Magazine, February 19, 2010
...of this week, Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island With its slow but taut pacing and muted tone, The Ghost Writer evokes the feel of '70s classics like The Conversation Holed up at their stark modern beachfront property (whatever house plays the ...
CNN, February 19, 2010
...'The Ghost Writer,' starring Pierce Brosnan, is the first effort in four years from filmmaker Roman Polanski. STORY HIGHLIGHTS 'The Ghost Writer' is the first production from filmmaker Roman Polanski in four ...
CHUD, February 19, 2010
...The Ghost Writer where Pierce Brosnan's Tony-Blair-In-All-But-Name ex-Prime Minister is looking at charges of war crimes and wondering where he can live without being extradited to the World Court that suddenly ...
Los Angeles Times, February 18, 2010
...gifts as a filmmaker were what made him famous in the first place. With the deliciously unsettling "The Ghost Writer," however, a dark pearl of a movie whose great flair and precision make it Polanski's best work in quite a while, the ...
MetroMix, February 18, 2010
...on Headline News or TCM, you know the name Roman Polanski. The controversial filmmaker had to finish editing “Ghost Writer” under house arrest in Switzerland, where he was unexpectedly detained due to longstanding legal charges in the ...
The Onion AV Club, February 18, 2010
...Director: Roman Polanski Cast: Robert Pugh Running time: 95 minutes Writer: Robert Harris Distributor: Summit Entertainment It is both easy and impossible to separate Roman Polanski the person from Roman Polanski the filmmaker when ...
Macleans Online, February 18, 2010
...Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer." What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a faithful, ...
DCExaminer.com, February 17, 2010
...Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer." What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a faithful, ...
MSN Entertainment, February 17, 2010
...Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer." What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a faithful, ...
In Entertainment, February 14, 2010
...Festival, which began this week. And the film that was drawing the attention was his new thriller, 'The Ghost Writer.' Polanski was unable to attend the film festival himself, due to the fact that he is under house arrest in Switzerland ...
Abu Dhabi National, February 13, 2010
...film festival on Friday, even though the veteran Franco-Polish director was, literally, detained elsewhere. Principal filming on The Ghost Writer ended a year ago, but Polanski, 76, was still editing when he was arrested in Zurich last ...
France24, February 10, 2010
...a maestro, the movie's stars, Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor, have said. Polanski's latest fiction "The Ghost Writer", which partly mirrors his own real-life detention drama, is getting its world premiere at the Berlin film festival this ...
WINK TV, January 22, 2010
...There has been much speculation about Roman Polanski's new thriller 'The Ghost Writer' since the controversy over his possible extradition to the United States began in Sept. And considering the commercial prospects of the material, its easy ...
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