Enter our hero---Lang's new ghostwriter---cynical, mercenary, and quick with a line of deadpan humor. Accustomed to working with fading rock stars and minor celeb ties, he jumps at the chance to be the new ghost of Adam Lang's memoirs, esl as it means a big payday. At once he flies to Lang's remote location in Am finish the book in the seclusion of a luxurious estate.

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder. Forced to step d~a in disgrace after siding with America in an unpopular war on terror,Adam Lang, Britain's longest serving prime minister, is hiding out in wintry Martha's Vineyard to finish his much sought-after, potentially explosive memoir,for which he accepted one of history's largest cash advances. But the project runs aground when his ghostwriter winds up dead on the island's deserted shore.